Well, I got it to work. It took a couple more tries, but I figured it out. It seems my problem was more in getting all my other hardware to work right (my USB mouse was the main problem) after recompiling the kernel. RedHat autodetected my mouse fine during install but it took some work to get the kernel to recognize it myself. All I did was ran usr/src/linux-2.4/make menuconfig; figuring out teh right options to include took the most time. Then I ran make dep, make clean, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install, then copied the bzimage to /boot, changed /etc/grub.conf to add a menu option for the new boot image, and it worked fine. The command to mount the ntfs drive took awhile to figure out too, since by default ntfs drives only give priveledges to the root user and no one else, but mount -t ntfs -o umask=0222 /dev/hda1 /XP worked fine. That gives all users write and execute access. There is no write access for anyone of course. It's not supported by the kernel yet, and I wouldn't use it if it was.

If I can do it I'm sure you can too Bleys. Now I need to figure out how to add that stuff to my fstab.