External NTFS USB drive automount

[Greg Booth]

On 8/27/07, Greg Booth <bootgr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > seems you are missing ntfs-3g driver which is referred in hal
> > configuration file.
> > try
> > sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
>
> If he'd followed the directions and installed ntfs-config it depends
> on ntfs-3g and should have been installed auto-magically.
>
> From apt-cache show ntfs-config
>
> Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.13.1), libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libcairo2
> (>= 1.3.14), libdbus-1-3 (>= 0.94), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0),
> libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.5.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.9), libgtk2.0-0 (>=
> 2.10.3), libhal-storage1, libhal1 (>= 0.5), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.15.6),
> libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1),
> libxi6, libxinerama1, libxml2 (>= 2.6.27), libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0),
> libxrender1, ntfs-3g
>
> Notice the last item there... that said though wouldn't hurt making
> SURE it's installed.
>
> Greg

Just out of curiosity, did you check the box for "Enable write support
for external device" listed in the how to ? Did it even come up ?

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The box said 'Requires Windows XP or better'. So I installed LINUX