Customizing Linux boot cd with with ntfs support

Chris Livesay livesay2000 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 3 09:29:28 CDT 2006


Everything I hear seems to be iffy. Some people say that at times you can
hose the ntfs fs by writing to it. I would definitely image any partition or
HD I was going to do this to, for safety's sake.

Chris

On 4/3/06, Michael Schultheiss <schultmc at cinlug.org> wrote:
>
> Matt Beal wrote:
> >
> > Hi list
> >
> > I'm looking to create a bootable cd which should write to NTFS partition
> > to install an x.exe install.  Sounds deviant, eh?  Actually, I just to
> > copy a Win script to the Windows Startup group which gives the
> > (extremely limited account) user choices of print drivers to load.
>
> I'm not sure how well NTFS write works in Linux (I haven't tried it in
> quite a while).  KNOPPIX include Captive NTFS which supposedly loads the
> NT/2k/XP ntfs.sys driver and uses that for writing, but I never got that
> to work.  As I understand it, Captive NTFS is no longer maintained but
> there are other NTFS write options.
>
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