[CentOS] Re: Problem installing the 53.1.6 kernel

Sat Jan 26 15:35:12 UTC 2008
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Jan 26, 2008 7:27 AM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 17:10 -0800, MHR wrote:
> > On Jan 25, 2008 8:52 AM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:

> > I haven't modified either grub.conf or menu.lst at all - when a new
> > kernel comes out, I install it (via yum update), boot from it,
> > download the kernel source (most recently from
> > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.1/updates/SRPMS/), enable NTFS as a
> > module with read/write add-ons, build the kernel, install the kernel,
> > kernel-devel and kernel-headers rpms and go.
>
> Hmmm... There should be a reduced workload available here, via either
> dkms or weak-modules.

There is no need for recompiling the kernel to mount NTFS.  See this wiki:

http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions

Akemi