Steffen Joeris wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:25:08 pm baldyeti wrote: >> Added the necessary line to sources.list, yet apt-get >> won't find the package. >> >> # apt-get -s -t etch-backports install ntfs-3g >> >> I cannot seem to make this work; thanks for any help. > The only ntfs-3g package I could find on backports.org is a backport for > sarge. It seems that there is no backport for etch, sorry. > If you need somebody to build the package for me, then ping me via private > mail, but I do not really use it. Therefore, I won't maintain the backport :( > [...]
I would guess that the reason there is no backport is that ntfs-3g seems to need kernel >= 2.6.20 and Etch is 2.6.18. The problem seems to be that an older fuse driver is built into the kernel. You can generate a new fuse module from the latest fuse tarball, but I don't know whether you can load it into the kernel and override the built-in driver. I would think not. If you are prepared to accept reduced functionality with the existing fuse driver, you can build from source. Perhaps you could upgrade your kernel too. Here is what I did (kernel 2.6.18): Download fuse from http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ Extract the tarball. $ ./configure --exec-prefix=/ $ make # make install (Make detects that fuse is already in the kernel. I did not force the generation of a kernel module.) Download fuse from http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ Extract the tarball. $ ./configure $ make # make install Read the man page $ man ntfs-3g Mount the NTFS partition # mkdir /mnt/win # ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/win WARNING: Deficient Linux kernel detected. Some driver features are not available (swap file on NTFS, boot from NTFS by LILO), and unmount is not safe unless it's made sure the ntfs-3g process naturally terminates after calling 'umount'. If you wish this message to disappear then you should upgrade to at least kernel version 2.6.20, or request help from your distribution to fix the kernel problem. The below web page has more information: http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#fuse26 Simple test # cd /mnt/win # ls AUTOEXEC.BAT IO.SYS ntldr RECYCLER WINNT boot.ini MSDOS.SYS pagefile.sys Setup CONFIG.SYS NTDETECT.COM Program Files TEMP # cd /mnt # umount /mnt/win Hope that helps. -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
