I am a newbie in linux and as such i am still addicted to NTFS drives .I use Slackware 10.1 and now want to see my files in my ntfs drive.
The problem is that this disk is dynamic and for some reason linux see's it as one partition!So i thought of installing captive ntfs that's said to work fine with that stuff.The problem is that when i rpm -i captive-1.1.7.tar.gz is says that i have no /bin/sh and /bin/bash but i used the sh command to install the nvidia driver and bash ... well bash i dont know what it is :|. That's that thanks for any replies in advance .

I am doing some search can rpm install .tar.gz files!!

Oup's my mistake its not the tar.gz
it's an rpm file
i just pasted the tar.gz file's name :|

paste the exact error and the command you typed in, maybe then we can help you.

root@darkstar:~/Desktop# rpm -i captive-static-1.1.7-0.i386.rpm
warning: captive-static-1.1.7-0.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 26a802b2
error: Failed dependencies:
/bin/bash is needed by captive-static-1.1.7-0
/bin/sh is needed by captive-static-1.1.7-0
root@darkstar:~/Desktop#

what do you get when you type
which bash
and
which sh

root@darkstar:~/Desktop# which sh
/bin/sh
root@darkstar:~/Desktop# which bash
/usr/bin/bash

try to cp your /usr/bin/bash to /bin/bash and see if that works out.
cp /usr/bin/bash /bin/

root@darkstar:~/Desktop# cp /usr/bin/bash /bin/
cp: `/usr/bin/bash' and `/bin/bash' are the same file

pretty odd, the files exist on your comp. but fail on dependency check.

Thatks for your effort w3bd3vil

i am downloading slack 10.2 does it have captive preinstalled or do i have to istall it again ?

have you already done this?
or try to convert it to a tarball using rpm2tgz and use the command installpkg to install it.

God Bless you w3bd3vil that final thing about rpm2tgz did the job !

great to hear that, but I would want some slack expert to tell me why this didnt work out?