Can Mandrake 8.2 read NTFS volumes?

[galt]

I want to know if Mandrake 8.2 can read from NTFS partitions. I dont need to write data to them, just reading is enough. Anybody know?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Have you checked the FAQ?

 

[Tiger]

Yes, but it's got to be compiled in the kernel to do it.

 

[ComradeXavier]

I dual-booted Mandrake 8.2 and w2k (on an NTFS partition) for a couple weeks a while ago, and I seem to remember being able to mount the NTFS partition just fine.

 

[Tiger]

Mandy must come with NTFS support compiled in it's kernel.

 

[Nothinman]

Mandy must come with NTFS support compiled in it's kernel.

Mandrake compiles everything as a module.

 

[galt]

" I dual-booted Mandrake 8.2 and w2k (on an NTFS partition) for a couple weeks a while ago, and I seem to remember being able to mount the NTFS partition just fine. "

Well I guess that's one more reason I should put mandrake on my system... (RH 7.3 out of the box doesn't like ntfs)

 

[Nothinman]

(RH 7.3 out of the box doesn't like ntfs)

That's because NTFS support is poor at best. Reading works ok most of the time but still can go belly up, writing it a complete no-no. I'm not saying that reading an NTFS partiton will corrupt the partition, but I've had the ntfs driver hang or oops after extended use on my SMP box.

 

[jcmkk]

The bad thing is that Redhat 7.3 doesn't even have Fat support compiled in to the kernel right out of the box. I know that Suse 8.0 has NTFS and Fat support standard.

 

[Nothinman]

The bad thing is that Redhat 7.3 doesn't even have Fat support compiled in to the kernel right out of the box. I know that Suse 8.0 has NTFS and Fat support standard.

That's not true, I just looked on a RH server I have and it's got vfat, msdos and umsdos filesystems as modules.

 

[galt]

Well, so much for that. Installed MDK 8.2 last night, and sure enough it did a directory listing of my ntfs partition. To be sure it worked, I copied a file over to the linux partition, and it showed up as 0k for filesize. Tried a couple more times with more files, and they all copy over as blank files ... 0 kb. Didn't take long to decide to put RH back on.

 

[earthman]

Just tried that with SuSE 8.0 and it works fine.

 

[galt]

SUSE supports NTFS out of the box? Just installed RH two nights ago... guess I'll be switching distros again. And the stupid thing is that the local stores dont have SUSE for sale on cds and I'm on a 56k modem. No choice but to stick with RH and say bye bye to NTFS then...

 

[Derango]

you can only do a FTP install of SuSE anyway. You can't get full ISO images. They are evaluation images that run off the CD and don't install on the hard drive.

 

[hungrygoose]

while we're on the subject, can someone explain how the ftp install works with suse?....i would really like to give it a try but i'm not real sure how to get it going.....i wish they just distributed full iso's like they do with most other distros

 

[galt]

This is how an FTP install for SUSE works: Go to their website and download an ISO for a bootable cd to install SUSE. Boot off the cd and during install it'll ask how you want to install it, (using cds or other). At that point choose "ftp install" and then enter the ip address of the ftp server. Now if you have a network card that and its connected to the net, suse will download and install.

I'd do that, except I'm on a modem, and if I start to install, I'd like to have it finish before I'm 35 and have 2 kids.

If only I had broadband... =(