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#1
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Peterborough, UK
Distribution: Win XP / Kubuntu 8.4
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Accessing NTFS drives through Slackware
Is it possible? When in windows i have a USB HD with all my mp3/wma/divx/xvid's on. Is there a way for me to get to these & how do i go about it??
Also could someone run me through installing drivers? I need to install drivers for my Linksys WUSB54GS. All i know is i have to use Ndiswrapper
#2
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: ubuntu
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bootup slack without the usb device plugged in. after you log in and everythings loaded, plug in the usb device, then run 'dmesg | tail' and post the output here. it should list, if all is configured and detected properly, the device file that the new usb device is using. once we get that, we can help you with the mount command.
#3
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Location: Peterborough, UK
Distribution: Win XP / Kubuntu 8.4
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Thanks i'll go do that in a sec
#4
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Right, i've made a bit of a balls up. I can't set my IP for my Ethernet card so, at the moment i can't get on the net. (i'm using XP at the mo)
#5
Slackware Contributor
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 8,559
Quote:
Originally Posted by punksoul257
at the moment i can't get on the net. (i'm using XP at the mo)
Remember, you can copy that text to a file on a floppy or a USB stick while you're in Slackare, and then retrieve that file after you rebooted into Windows XP - and post it here.
Eric
#6
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Right i'll go do that, not thinking streight today, doh.
#7
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Quote:
Linux version 2.4.31 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.3.5) #6 Sun Jun 5 19:04:47 PDT 2005
Don't know if this will be any good.
Last edited by punksoul257; 05-12-2006 at 04:13 PM .
#8
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Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Distribution: Slackware
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Well, amongst all the junk, it says
Code:
Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: SP1604N Rev: TM10
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 312581809 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
sda: sda1
so the disk is recognized as /dev/sda with one partition on it: /dev/sda1
You will probably see the same if you run
and with this last command you'll also see what type the partition is (probably NTFS as you reported)
Try running
Code:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd
If you don't see errors, then your data will be available to you at /mnt/hd/*
If there are errors, you probably don't have the ntfs driver loaded. Run
and try the mount command again.
If that did the trick, you should open /etc/rc.d/rc.modules in an editor, look for the line that goes
Code:
#/sbin/modprobe ntfs
and remove the starting '#' so that the line looks like
Code:
/sbin/modprobe ntfs
Now, when you boot the computer, the NTFS driver will be loaded automatically each time.
Eric
#9
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Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Distribution: Slackware
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As for ndiswrapper, I have a reasonably recent Slackware package for 10.2 here:
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slac....31-i486-1.tgz
This is for your 2.4.31 kernel. The current ndiswrapper release is 1.16 but I didn't bother to build a package for that release yet. If you install that one, instead of building it yourself from source, you can start reading from here in the ndiswrapper Wiki:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...Windows_driver and it should get you somewhere.
Eric
#10
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Registered: May 2006
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The drive will be read-only BTW.
#11
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Location: Peterborough, UK
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right as far as i can tell its not mounting. What i mean is when i go to look @ my storage devices there is only my /hdc1 & my fd0 & my dvd drive.
#12
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: London, UK
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 7,464
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Quote:
Originally Posted by punksoul257
right as far as i can tell its not mounting. What i mean is when i go to look @ my storage devices there is only my /hdc1 & my fd0 & my dvd drive.
Where are you looking? Did mount return with any errors?
[/quote]Also 2 Alien Bob, i'll give that version of ndiswrapper a go. Not really sure how to install it. But i'll give it a look.[/QUOTE]
Since it's a Slackware package, you can install it with installpkg:
# installpkg ndiswrapper-1.10_2.4.31-i486-1.tgz
from within the directory in which the file is located, you can use the full path if you're in a different directory.
#13
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Canada
Distribution: ubuntu
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nylex:
#14
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Peterborough, UK
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It says i must specify the file system type when i type in mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd.
#15
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Argentina (SR, LP)
Distribution: Slackware
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Remember that most distributions (including Slackware) provides the man pages for most commands you can run in Linux.
Last edited by gbonvehi; 05-15-2006 at 03:23 AM .
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