[ale] NTFS-based systems at the installfest

[Fulton Green]

I've written about the lack of NTFS support for Red Hat before, but just as
a heads-up for you installers this weekend just in case I'm unable to make
it ...

As of 8.0, Red Hat is sill excluding NTFS support (the ntfs.o module) from
its Linux distro. If you encounter someone that wants to dual-boot Linux
with an NTFS-based OS (NT, 2000, XP), make sure you DON'T choose the Red Hat
distro for them (I do know that Mandrake and Slackware have NTFS support,
and I *think* Debian has it as well).  Depending on you and/or your target
user's comfort level, you might want to add the "ro" (read-only) option to
the corresponding /etc/fstab entry.

Cheers ...

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