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I never was able to get the captive to work -- it seemed to crash when
I tried it.  What kernel and file systems are you using to get this to
work? What version of captive?

on Wednesday 09/21/2005 Igor Gueths(igueths at lava-net.com) wrote
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 > Hi all. Actually, full read/write support can be achieved using Captive. Its already been done in Rip (Recovery Is Possible) Linux. I'm not sure if other distros have already used it. Captive 
 > can be found at http://jankratochvil.net/projects/captive. I've got it working on my laptop...Quite nice actually.
 > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:36:23PM -0400, Joshua Lambert wrote:
 > > "Can you make it nt compatible while you're at it?" <snip>
 > > Unfortunately, no.  Zipspeak runs on top of vfat partitions using the
 > > umsdos filesystem.  And Linux only has limited write support for nt
 > > partitions currently.
 > > Also, it will still use the 2.4 kernel as the umsdos filesystem it depends
 > > on has been removed from the kernel as of 2.6.8x I think.  No one has
 > > fixed it in 2.6, so it has been suspended indefinitely.  And yes, zipspeak
 > > is open-source.
 > > Cheers,
 > > Josh
 > > 
 > > 
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