NTFS Not Supported by 2.4 and a Whole Mess of Problems
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When trying to mount an NTFS partition on Fedora Core 1.0 (Red Hat 10.0, sort of) it tells me that my kernel doesn''t support it. I''ve tried using mount -t and I''ve tried putting the following in my fstab both with the same result:
/dev/hda1 /ms ntfs ro,umask=000 0 0
So, basically I am assuming my only resort is to update my kernel from 2.4 to 2.6 but I can''t figure out for the life of me how to do it! Let alone how to get the kernel file onto my linux partition. Here''s the prediciment I''m in:
My ethernet connection is built into my NForce 2, of which is not supported natively by Fedora Core. This means I can''t connect to the internet. And I can''t access my window$ partition because 2.4 doesn''t seem to support NTFS. So, the question is: What do I do?
I have read through a lot of kernel.org and they don''t seem to be very helpful in terms of compiling and installing a kernel. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I''m not sure if 2.4 supports NTFS, but just because YOUR kernel doesn''t support NTFS doesn''t mean that 2.4 doesn''t. You have to install the NTFS drivers.
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Where do I get those and how do I install them? I can burn them onto a CD right? Does linux use the ISO standard?
quote:Original post by clum
I''m not sure if 2.4 supports NTFS, but just because YOUR kernel doesn''t support NTFS doesn''t mean that 2.4 doesn''t. You have to install the NTFS drivers.
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2.4 does have NTFS support, although read-only. It is RH/FC specifically that do not ship with compiled NTFS drivers.
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So what do I do? I would like to compile the 2.6 kernel and put that in. Is that a good idea? I have only done kernel compilation in FreeBSD (which was very well documented, bravo BSD).
RPM packages for Red Hat for the NTFS module are provided here. Edit: oops.
[edited by - Null and Void on January 5, 2004 2:24:31 AM]
[edited by - Null and Void on January 5, 2004 2:24:31 AM]
Is your NTFS driver module loaded? Check the output of lsmod; if there''s an ntfs driver there, then it''s loaded but not working. If it''s not loaded, then try modprobe -l and look for ntfs. If there is one, then try modprobe ntfs and then mount it again.
> 2.4 does have NTFS support, although read-only.
To be painstakingly anal it supports both reading and writing.
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To be painstakingly anal it supports both reading and writing.
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Bernie Kirschner
www.bkgames.com
quote:Original post by bernatk
> 2.4 does have NTFS support, although read-only.
To be painstakingly anal it supports both reading and writing.
To be painstakingly pragmatic, it would have been misleading to have mentioned that, given that write support is limited and fairly experimental.
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