captive ntfs tips

[landtuna]

I just managed to get a captive ntfs drive mounted in Knoppix 3.6. Here are some tips:

Make sure you have a "captive" user who is a member of the "captive" group. Otherwise the mount command will hang. I wasn't able to do this through adduser and addgroup, but running kuser as root worked.

Only the Windows XP drivers work right (i.e., not 2000 or NT).

I did everything using the command line utilities captive-install-acquire and mount. The GUI doesn't give you as much feedback about what's happening.

If you don't do one of the steps above, mounting might fail. If it does, you need to use a newly created directory as a mount point before things will work.

[Bernd Blaauw]

If you put the necessary Windows files (ntoskrnl.exe, ntfs.sys and maybe others) in the KNOPPIX directory and remaster the cdrom,
will Knoppix then auto-execute CAPTIVE-NTFS when you mount a harddisk?

[landtuna]

I doubt it.

If you added the captive user and group, and if you set up your /etc/fstab correctly, then maybe it would work... but then only for /dev/hda1 or whatever you choose.

I don't really know anything about automounting.