NTFS-3g kde4 Dolphin

NTFS

Add the following to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/20-ntfs-config-write-policy.fdi (create the file if it doesn’t exist)

Note: This config file has been tested with hal = 0.5.11 and correctly identifies/mounts (external) ntfs devices with ntfs-3g. ‘mount’ should display the filesystem type as ‘fuseblk’ if this configuration file is correctly detected.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
   <device>
       <match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
           <match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
               <merge key="volume.fstype" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
               <merge key="volume.policy.mount_filesystem" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
               <append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">locale=</append>
           </match>
       </match>
   </device>
</deviceinfo>

Source: arch wiki

Chakra – Public Alpha 1 usb install

New day, a new exam tomorrow from Discrete Mathematics at 8:00.

Last night i didn’t slept well, but managed to get chakra alpha 1 installed on my system. Because of the missing of cd-drive i had to find another way to install the livecd image. I did that with a really great utility it’s called “unetbootin”. This little software let you to make a bootable install usb from an iso cd image.

So what u’ll have to be aware from:

Don’t forget to check the partition table of your pendrive / usbstick because on mine there was a small 4mb unpartitioned space.

Here is the way to do it:

1. Plug your memory stick / usbstick / pendrive in.
2. check where is th device node in /dev with the command: dmesg
3. switch to root, su or use  sudo to get access of device  nodes
4. sudo cfdisk /dev/sda or /dev/sdb or anything that your systemuse as your pendrives devicenode.
5. check the partition table, if there is a small space unpartitioned, delete the partition after it and creat a new full sized partition, and set the boot flag on.
6. Don’t forget to write the changes to disk.

So if your done, creat a file system on your drive, it could be vfat if you want to run unetbootin from xp/vista or ext2 if you want to use unetbootin from linux.

• mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1 or mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 (replace sdb2 with your /dev/sdxy  x=[a,b,c…[   y=1

Get unetbootin from this link or from your distros repo if it exists there

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

run unetbootin, grab the chakra-livecd.iso image, and use this very small and easily useable proggram to make your usbstick to run as chakra livecd.

plugin, reboot, boot-menu choose usb boot, and you’re done.

I’m going back to my book of descrete mathematics to continue learning…

Hope you found this article useful.

Cheers, Neolamb

Chakra,Interests,First poSt

So, I should get used to blogging first…

So, I started this blog to let people get some information about me, or in the projects that i’ll do, or take a part.

Now I am a second year student at the local university, learning Computer Science or IT Specialist, maybe the best to describe it is Software Development in high level languages.

I just met some volks on irc at #chakra-devel, in my interest of linux distributions, and told them that i really want to take part, in developing for them, for there linux distribution called “Chakra”.

Why so fast i did my talk? Because the only useable and simpathic distrubution that i really want to invest time will be Chakra. Why? I’don really now yet but i got an intuition

But, lets see and i tgonna make it out in a few weeks.

But, i’ll have two exams left yet, so think of me on the next week.

Neolamb