Re: NTFS Support

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Andrew Campagnola wrote:
> I use:   xinit startkde 
>
> Rick - You mentioned getting NTFS RPMs from freshmeat?
> Does that mean you can get NTFS support by installing an RPM
> rather than recompiling the Kernel?
>
> I've always recompiled to get NTFS Support.

I won't vouch for it, but someone somewhere said the ntfs module
is available via RPM.  It might be from RedHat's site.  I can't
recall.

> ALSO, On my Toshiba Laptop whenver I add NTFS support in a recompile
> I get an unbotable kernel - (Can't mount /)
>
> Any ideas about that??

Sure.  Did you build an initrd for the kernel you built?  I suspect
your root filesystem is ext3 and you either need to build ext3 into
the kernel statically or leave it as a module and build an initrd for
it.  That's the most common problem.
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