Re: how to boot linux and mount ntfs?
- From: "Robert M. Riches Jr." <spamtrap42@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 03:09:59 GMT
On 2008-05-26, Penguin <Ralph.Lam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,
I would like to use a linux installation DVD-ROM (Fedora 5) to boot my
machine and mount the NTFS on my harddisk.
I tried to boot it in "linux rescue" mode and access to the command
line. but I am not able to mount the NTFS. It seems like the ntfs
modules is not loaded to kernel yet. Then, I downloaded ntfs-kernel-
modules.rpm file and save it in a usb drive. I tried to install it
after boot in rescue mode but I got /lib/modules is a read-only file
system.
Any hints?
This might not get you anywhere, but it might be worth trying. I
don't use Fedora, but I have used HatRed and currently use an
RPM-based distribution.
First, have you checked to make sure the kernel modules aren't
available? To get the names of the module files, you should be
able to do 'rpm -qlp $path/ntfs-kernel-modules.rpm'. Then, see
whether those files already exist in /lib/modules. If they do,
you may be able to modprobe them.
Second, provided the tools are available in rescue mode, you
should be able to use rpm2cpio to convert the .rpm file to a
..cpio file, then the cpio command to extract the files, then
modprobe or insmod them to get them into the running kernel.
(The task of finding the exact options to extract files from the
..cpio file is left as an exercise for the reader. :-)
HTH
--
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@xxxxxxxxxxx
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
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