[lug] mount NTFS without a kernel rebuild?

[Nate Duehr]

No he meant modprobe... almost always a better choice than a direct insmod
because it will try to figure out if other modules are needed.

--
Nate WY0X


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Jarosko, Bill
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:48 AM
> To: 'lug at lug.boulder.co.us'
> Subject: RE: [lug] mount NTFS without a kernel rebuild?
>
>
> You mean insmod.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Morris [mailto:lists at morris-clan.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:43 AM
> To: Boulder Linux User's Group
> Subject: Re: [lug] mount NTFS without a kernel rebuild?
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:26:09AM -0600, carl.wagner at level3.com wrote:
> > Is there a way to get the kernel module for NTFS without having to
> > rebuild the whole kernel?  I want to grab some files from my nt
> partition.
>
> If you are using a pre-built kernel, you can probably just
> probe the module:
>
>     modprobe ntfs
>
> Otherwise, you probably built the kernel yourself and, if
> you still have that directory around you built in, you can
> follow the instructions from another post to get just the
> module built...you might search the net (perhaps visit
> kernel.org) for details of incrementally building new
> modules, as it is easy once you know how to do it (never
> needed to).
>
> BTW, I also suggest you use xconfig, not menuconfig.
>
> --David
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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