But it's not going to be there. I took a look at the kernels supplied with Slackware 10.1, none of them supply ntfs compiled into the kernel, most of them supply it as a module. Which you have found out. The problem is that the ramdisk from which the Slackware installer runs, ie this is what is actually running when you boot to the install CD, does not include the ntfs module. That module is also not included in any of the addon ramdisks for things like network cards, pcmcia and etc, at least not that I saw. Strange that Pat left that out, since NTFS is pretty much mainstream these days in the Windows world, but probably not alot of people installing it from hard disks either.
So with that in mind you'll have to supply it manually. Probably the simpiest way to get it loaded would be to extract the module you need from modules package Slackware provides, copy it to a floppy, and then set it up manually after you boot the PC to the CD. If you don't have a working Linux system to use to extract the module from the package, then you'll need some Windows tool that can handle tarballs (WInRAR is one), ie a Slackware package is just a tar archive that has also been gzipped. Anyway, assuming you do then copy the
slackware/a/kernel-modules-2.4.29-i486-1.tgz package into a directory somewhere by itself and then cd into that directory. Then extract it with this command:
Code:
tar zxvf kernel-modules-2.4.29-i486-1.tgz
The module you're looking for is located at
lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/fs/ntfs/ntfs.o.gz within the directory where you extracted the package. Copy that file to a floppy and then boot the PC to the Slackware CD. Once you're booted up and login as root at the login prompt, then run the following commands with the floppy inserted:
Code:
mkdir -p /mnt/floppy
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/fs/ntfs
cp /mnt/floppy/ntfs.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/fs/ntfs/
depmod
modprobe ntfs
umount /dev/fd0
That should get it loaded so that you can access the NTFS disks on the PC. If you still get an error about modprobe not finding the module, then try unziping the module, and rerunning depmod and modprobe. Like so:
Code:
cd /lib/modules/2.4.29/kernel/fs/ntfs
gzip -d ntfs.o.gz
depmod
modprobe ntfs
The above is just off the top of my head so it's possible that I missed/forgot something. If it doesn't work, then post back and I'll step through it here and get you more precise steps. Good luck.
