Captive and Mandrake 10.1

fatenabu · 09-09-2005, 08:45 PM

Hello,
I am so happy I got mandrake 10.1 offical to work even though it was a pain, due to a bad download I had to mix and match commercial and official but it is running nice and stable. I was searching the fourms and I found a neat little program called captive. I downloaded the RPM version installed it, it worked great on the install I ran the captive-install-acquire as it says on the site. My big problem is that I still can not write to my windows NTFS drive. I also go to do what it says about the Captive-cmdline stuff and it won't work right i get this error:

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Captive-ERROR **: image_iochannel open failed
aborting...
Aborted (core dumped)

Code:

[root@localhost root]# captive-cmdline load-module=/var/lib/captive/ntoskrnl.exe

Captive-ERROR **: image_iochannel open failed
aborting...
Aborted (core dumped)
[root@localhost root]# captive-cmdline \ > --load-module=/var/lib/captive/ntoskrnl.exe

Captive-ERROR **: File/device disk image pathname command-line argument requiredaborting...
Aborted (core dumped)
[root@localhost root]# captive-cmdline \
> filesystem=/var/lib/captive/ntfs.sys

Captive-ERROR **: image_iochannel open failed
aborting...
Aborted (core dumped)

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

that is where I got the program and I am logged on as root as of now.. I was hoping someone could give me a hand. I can read the hard drive like always but no writing. This sort of makes me sad cause I have wine and cedega so I was going to have fun. Anyone ever use this please help me guys.

Capodastro · 12-03-2006, 06:30 PM

well, under linux the names of external HDDs can change by every new start!!! So, sdf3 can became sdc3 or sdg3 or...

Captive-ERROR **: image_iochannel failed open of:

This means simply that the drive with the given name is inexistent.
Workaround example:
assuming you or the program created in /mnt a folder named captive-volume,
type 'mount' in the console, check in the output for the new drive name and assuming such new name be sdd1, type:

su
umount /dev/sdd1
mount -t captive-ntfs /dev/sdd1 /mnt/captive-volume

you will be able to write to the drive only as root. You can use the kde file manager in superuse mode avoiding a new login.
ntfs-3g seams work better as captive, no need for root privileges.
have fun!