This doesn't answer your question ("What went wrong?"), but when I wanted access to my NTFS, I found the following at http://www.fedorafaq.org/#ntfs $ wget http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf $ sudo mv /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.orig $ sudo cp -i yum.conf /etc $ sudo rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/yum http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm $ sudo yum install kmod-ntfs Once I did that, I was able to $ sudo mount -t ntfs -oro,uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hda1 /c Oh yeah, if you don't have "sudo" set up on your system, you can change all of the commands that read: sudo this that to read su -c "this that" --wpd -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list