I have Windows XP and Gentoo running on different partitions of my hard drive. Instead of installing all the windows software on my linux drive again would it also be possible, when in linux, to load software via Wine from the winXP Partition(NTFS) only to execute it and work with the app in linux. -CProgrammer

Yes, that is completely feasible. You will need to recompile your kernel, and include support for reading NTFS partitions (do not check the writing support, its still a little sketchy.) After that, you must mount your NTFS partition to a good conical location like /mnt/ntfs or /mnt/windows.

Ah I see thanks.
-CProgrammer

Ed: Nevermind, I am sort of busy at the moment.

[edited by - aftermath on April 25, 2004 6:39:44 AM]

you might already have ntfs support though, so try to mount your windows partition before you go recompiling your kernel (most likely it''ll be /dev/hda1)

Well recompiled the kernel. However
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/win
didnt work.
Says ntfs isnt a known type(I added support to the kernel). Is there perhaps a different argument for mount?
-CProgrammer

what happends without the -t argument?

Perhaps, do I have to recompile the kernel from a boot cd, so that its not running?

Try to mount only with mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/win ...
also if you compiled ntfs support as a kernel module, ensure that it is loaded(lsmod), and if not, try to load it(modprobe ntfs)...

[edited by - glubo on April 25, 2004 7:15:59 AM]

aftermath: Same thing, I think support for ntfs isnt installed for some reason. Perhaps because of ''previois post''.
-CProgrammer