Download and save to windows partition?

[j.drake]

No, I think you have to find and copy them first. E2g pretty well told you where they're found (even though he applied variables for the drive letter and Windows directory).

If I were you, I'd boot into Windows, open Windows Explorer, and click on the Windows folder. On my computer, it's C:\Windows. If that's true in your case as well, then it's likely that cdfs.sys, fastfat.sys and ntfs.sys are in the C:\Windows\system32\drivers\ directory, and ntoskrnl.exe is in the C:\Windows\system32\ directory. USe the search function if you'd rather. Find them and copy them somewhere (you know, rt click copy, rt click paste). Put them on a USB key, or create a folder called C:\drivers if you want, and paste them there.

Exit Windows, open Knoppix. Open your home directory, and create a new folder called "captive-drivers", to use e2g's example. Go to your hda1 icon on your desk and click it. It should open, then you can open the folder you named "drivers", and the files should be inside. Select all of them, right click, copy, go back to the "captive-drivers" folder you installed in your home directory, right-click, paste. From here on out, should be just as he said with the commands.

Unmount the partition. Then run

sudo captive-install-acquire --text --scan-path=/home/knoppix/captive-drivers

and you'll get an error message about not being able to read ext2fsd.sys that you can ignore. You should now be able to mount your NTFS partition using the command

sudo mount -t captive-ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

Alternatively, he suggested,

Maybe all you really need to do is copy those four files from WinXP into /var/lib/captive and you're good to go!

I didn't try that method because the other one worked for me.

The reason you got the "file not found" error when running those commands is because you hadn't yet copied them over (BTW, it's really kind of dangerous to take liberties with a process when you're running as root - you might want to avoid doing that). Then, when you went to mount the partition, the filetype was unfamiliar (note in his suggested command, the "-t captive-ntfs" - if you look up the syntax for the mount command, the "-t" is the flag for fille Type, and for Knoppix to deal with that filetype, it needs those drivers, and needs to know where they are.

hth

jd.