My apologies for posting an already solved problem, but dont know if its my ignorance that is not getting me to my desired results.....trying to mount an external usb hard drive(ntfs) in my system.<br><br>In my CentOS box, I tried to install dkms, dkms-fuse, fuse and fuse-ntfs-3g as follows(including what happened)<br>
<br>[root@Production mnt]# yum install dkms dkms-fuse fuse fuse-ntfs-3g<br>Setting up Install Process<br>Setting up repositories<br>Reading repository metadata in from local files<br>Parsing package install arguments<br>Resolving Dependencies<br>
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.<br>---> Package dkms.noarch 0:2.0.20.4-1.el4.rf set to be updated<br>---> Package fuse-ntfs-3g.x86_64 0:2009.4.4-2.el4.rf set to be updated<br>---> Package fuse.x86_64 0:2.7.4-1.el4.rf set to be updated<br>
---> Package dkms-fuse.noarch 0:2.7.4-1.nodist.rf set to be updated<br>--> Running transaction check<br><br>Dependencies Resolved<br><br>=============================================================================<br>
Package Arch Version Repository Size<br>=============================================================================<br>Installing:<br> dkms noarch 2.0.20.4-1.el4.rf rpmforge 60 k<br>
dkms-fuse noarch 2.7.4-1.nodist.rf rpmforge 70 k<br> fuse x86_64 2.7.4-1.el4.rf rpmforge 254 k<br> fuse-ntfs-3g x86_64 2009.4.4-2.el4.rf rpmforge 368 k<br>
<br>Transaction Summary<br>=============================================================================<br>Install 4 Package(s)<br>Update 0 Package(s)<br>Remove 0 Package(s)<br>Total download size: 752 k<br>
Is this ok [y/N]: y<br>Downloading Packages:<br>Running Transaction Test<br>Finished Transaction Test<br>Transaction Test Succeeded<br>Running Transaction<br> Installing: fuse ######################### [1/4]<br>
Installing: dkms ######################### [2/4]<br> Installing: fuse-ntfs-3g ######################### [3/4]<br> Installing: dkms-fuse ######################### [4/4]<br>
<br>Installed: dkms.noarch 0:2.0.20.4-1.el4.rf dkms-fuse.noarch 0:2.7.4-1.nodist.rf fuse.x86_64 0:2.7.4-1.el4.rf fuse-ntfs-3g.x86_64 0:2009.4.4-2.el4.rf<br>Complete!<br>[root@Production mnt]#<br><br>The hard drive shows in GUI, but doesn't open or mount as I expected.<br>
<br>The output of uname -a and rpm -qa|grep kernel|sort kernel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL are:<br><br>[root@Production mnt]# uname -a<br>Linux Production 2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 24 05:28:30 CDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<br>
<br>[root@Production mnt]# rpm -qa|grep kernel|sort kernel-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL<br>kernel-2.6.9-34.EL<br>kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL<br>kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL<br>kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.EL<br>kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL<br>
kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.80<br>[root@Production mnt]#<br><br>I am guessing that I am using mismatched versions of kernels but just not getting there...<br>Tried looking all over the place for a solution, haven't had any luck yet!<br>
<br>Thanks.<br><br><br>