Last time this came around, I grabbed both the full install and the developers edition. Could not get a single damn one of them to work(eventually went to a blank screen) and gave up on this crap. Do yourselves a favor and D/L Mandrake ISO's or do a SuSE fttp install. Much better *nix's if you ask me. At least in the fact that they work.
Get Mandrake or Fedora.
ISO's are aviable for free and you can buy versions with extras for cheap. You get a superior Linux distro that sticks to standards, has a larger user base and doesn't charge for software installations.
See fedora.redhat.com or www.mandrakelinux.com
Also SuSE is a good distro to try out, but is a FTP install for free that may cause complications for some people. They have cheap commercial versions, too.
Commercial versions come with extra support. some closed sourced programs, and extra documentation. Depending on the version you buy, though.
You can go to linuxiso.org to find links to iso image downloads you can use to burn installation disks. No BS credit card crap or anything.
ISO's are aviable for free and you can buy versions with extras for cheap. You get a superior Linux distro that sticks to standards, has a larger user base and doesn't charge for software installations.
See fedora.redhat.com or www.mandrakelinux.com
Also SuSE is a good distro to try out, but is a FTP install for free that may cause complications for some people. They have cheap commercial versions, too.
Commercial versions come with extra support. some closed sourced programs, and extra documentation. Depending on the version you buy, though.
You can go to linuxiso.org to find links to iso image downloads you can use to burn installation disks. No BS credit card crap or anything.
They should detect the NTFS partition during installation and you should be able to read it by default.
You may have to mount the partitions, though, if the NTFS partitions aren't set up to do that by default.
In linux everything is part of a single directory tree, starting off with / directory which is root. All partitions you use or network shares have to be "mounted" to the directory tree in some place. For example the cdrom usually ends up being mounted in /cdrom or /mnt/cdrom, or the floppy usually ends up in /floppy or /mnt/floppy. But you can change this to make it mount in any empty directory you want. Their should be a GUI based interface on your desktop or something that will do it so you don't need to remember the commands.
It would be something like:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
were hda is the primary master IDE device, hdb is the primary slave, hdc = secondary master, hdd=secondary slave. All the partition numbers are numbers tagged on the end of the name for the ide device. Ditto for zip drives and cdrom drives if they are setup as normal ide devices.
But you shouldn't have to worry about that stuff, the installer should take care of this stuff for you.
You may have to mount the partitions, though, if the NTFS partitions aren't set up to do that by default.
In linux everything is part of a single directory tree, starting off with / directory which is root. All partitions you use or network shares have to be "mounted" to the directory tree in some place. For example the cdrom usually ends up being mounted in /cdrom or /mnt/cdrom, or the floppy usually ends up in /floppy or /mnt/floppy. But you can change this to make it mount in any empty directory you want. Their should be a GUI based interface on your desktop or something that will do it so you don't need to remember the commands.
It would be something like:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
were hda is the primary master IDE device, hdb is the primary slave, hdc = secondary master, hdd=secondary slave. All the partition numbers are numbers tagged on the end of the name for the ide device. Ditto for zip drives and cdrom drives if they are setup as normal ide devices.
But you shouldn't have to worry about that stuff, the installer should take care of this stuff for you.
Redhat will not read NTFS partitions with the default kernel. They removed the module due to copyright concerns or somthing like that. Anyway, its not there 
Same with Fedora. You have to compile a kernel that isn't taken from the red-hat sources in order to get it.
Mandrake will have no problem with it though.
Same with Fedora. You have to compile a kernel that isn't taken from the red-hat sources in order to get it.Mandrake will have no problem with it though.
Jeff7181
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Originally posted by: Derango
Redhat will not read NTFS partitions with the default kernel. They removed the module due to copyright concerns or somthing like that. Anyway, its not there
Mandrake will have no problem with it though.
How bout Lindows 4.5?
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