Please read the README file before this one.

STEP 1
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To detect some capabilities of your system, first type :

  ./configure

Note that you can use the following options :

  --with-device=<a device>
    Your NTFS device, for example /dev/hda3

  --with-debug
    To use the debugging capabilities of the kernel module (Only for Linux 2.1)

  --with-mount-to=<a directory
    Your mount point for the NTFS partition, for example /nt

STEP 2
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Then type :

  make

  . For Linux 2.0 this will build the NTFS driver as a Linux kernel module. To
    build the driver as a part (modular or not) of your Linux kernel, you can
    apply the patch linux20/patch.

  . For Linux 2.1 this will build the NTFS driver as a Linux kernel module. To
    build the driver as a part (modular or not) of your Linux kernel, you can
    apply the patch linux21/patch.

  . For *BSD this will build the NTFS driver as a Linux kernel module.

  . For all UNIX, this command builds a set of tools to access an NTFS
    partition, too.

STEP 3 (Only for Linux 2.0, Linux 2.1 and *BSD)
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Now mount a NTFS partition, 'cd' into it, 'ls' it, and at last try to 'cat' a
file such as WINNT35/WIN.INI. If it works like any other file system, you are
done. On the contrary, there is a bug, keep on reading.

STEP 4
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Try this, say for example :

  ./ntdir
  ./ntdir WINNT35
  ./ntcat WINNT35/WIN.INI

  If all of this works, you are done. On the contrary, there is a bug, you can
  read the HACKING file to try to track it.
