[whitephantom]

Hi,

I am new to UBCD4win and have created one boot-cd so far with the standard plugins and drivers. Now there's been a development that really interests me because of the extra flexibility it would help to add to a BootCd..

So, what's happened you say? Well, there's a cool new driver for Windows that's been released.

Ext2 IFS For Windows - Driver

Here ¡s where I found out about it OSnews.

It's a driver that lets you access Ext2 / Ext3 partitions from windows. I've been trying to find out how to create a BartPe driver plugin from this but can't quite figure out if it's possible. I just read this Readme but it makes me think that this is not possible... is that so?

Anybody out there know an answer to this?

Thanks!!!!

[Jotnar]

Even cooler is the ReiserFS driver that you can get here. I found it in the OSNews comments for that article. The author says the final version should be out today.

Cheers

[LittlBUGer]

whitephantom, on Aug 9 2005, 12:34 PM, said:

Hi,

I am new to UBCD4win and have created one boot-cd so far with the standard plugins and drivers. Now there's been a development that really interests me because of the extra flexibility it would help to add to a BootCd..

So, what's happened you say? Well, there's a cool new driver for Windows that's been released.

Ext2 IFS For Windows - Driver

Here ¡s where I found out about it OSnews.

It's a driver that lets you access Ext2 / Ext3 partitions from windows. I've been trying to find out how to create a BartPe driver plugin from this but can't quite figure out if it's possible. I just read this Readme but it makes me think that this is not possible... is that so?

Anybody out there know an answer to this?

Thanks!!!!

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Don't we already have two similar utilities on the CD? These two are what I'm talking about (there may be more...):

Explore2fs
R-Linux

(They should be under the Linux category...)

[stidyup]

Explore2fs - copying files from linux files systems
R-Linux - file recovery

FS-Driver

Quote

It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.

This claims to give you full read/write access, which the other two currently don't they are just read only.

[whitephantom]

stidyup, on Aug 10 2005, 07:02 AM, said:

Explore2fs - copying files from linux files systems
R-Linux - file recovery

FS-Driver

Quote

It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.

This claims to give you full read/write access, which the other two currently don't they are just read only.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That's right!!! you got it... couldn't have said it better... I've got Linux and Windows installed on one maschine and this is really cool to use in a situation like that.

Regards...

[whitephantom]

OK... been following the thread about this that I started at The CD Forum. Here's the link to the discussion for anyone who might be interested:

Discussion on ext2ifs plugin for BartPE

The plugin is working for me so far.

Here are some instructions on how I got it to work based on the help of the people at The CD Forum... try it and let me know if it works for you:

1. Create a Folder "ext2ifs" (all the plugin stuff goes in here)
2. Create a Folder "files" inside to folder created in step 1.
3. Download Ext2Ifs driver.
4. Extract the contents of the .exe into the "files" directory
5. Create a file called ext2ifs.inf in the "ext2ifs" folder and paste the following text into it:

; PE Builder v3 plug-in INF file
; Created by d4vr0s , (Modified for Nu2menu by whitephantom)
; http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html

[Version]
Signature= "$Windows NT$"

[PEBuilder]
Name="ext2ifs"
Enable=1

[SourceDisksFiles]
files\Nt501_ifsdrives.sys=4,ifsdrives.sys,1
files\Nt501_ext2fs.sys=4,ext2fs.sys,1
files\*.??l=2

[Software.AddReg]
0x7,"Sherpya\RegExpander\HKLM","Software\Classes\CLSID\{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}\InprocServer32","(Default)"
0x7,"Sherpya\RegExpander\HKLM","Software\Classes\CLSID\{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}\ToolboxBitmap32","(Default)"
0x1,"Classes\CLSID\{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}\InprocServer32",,"%SystemRoot%\system32\IfsDrives.dll"
0x1,"Classes\CLSID\{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}\ToolboxBitmap32",,"%SystemRoot%\system32\IfsDrives.dll, 101"
0x1,"Classes\IfsDrives.Control",,"IfsDrivesCtrl Class"
0x1,"Classes\IfsDrives.Control\CLSID",,"{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}"
0x1,"Classes\IfsDrives.Control\CurVer",,"IfsDrives.Control.1"
0x1,"Classes\IfsDrives.Control.1",,"IfsDrivesCtrl Class"
0x1,"Classes\IfsDrives.Control.1\CLSID",,"{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}"
0x1,"Classes\CLSID\{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}",,"IfsDrivesCtrl Class"
0x1,"Classes\CLSID\{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}\InprocServer32","ThreadingModel","Apartment"
0x1,"Classes\CLSID\{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}\MiscStatus",,"0"
0x1,"Classes\CLSID\{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}\MiscStatus\1",,"131473"
0x1,"Classes\CLSID\{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}\ProgID",,"IfsDrives.Control.1"
0x1,"Classes\CLSID\{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}\TypeLib",,"{DD252E81-3813-4412-83FE-3E44CC16B1F5}"
0x1,"Classes\CLSID\{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}\Version",,"1.0"
0x1,"Classes\CLSID\{6E04972F-B620-4D7A-9E34-3C8055AA52A5}\VersionIndependentProgID",,"IfsDrives.Control"

[SetupReg.AddReg]
0x4,"ControlSet001\Services\Ext2fs","Type",0x2
0x4,"ControlSet001\Services\Ext2fs","Start",0x1
0x4,"ControlSet001\Services\Ext2fs","ErrorControl",0x1
0x2,"ControlSet001\Services\Ext2fs","ImagePath","system32\DRIVERS\ext2fs.sys"
0x4,"ControlSet001\Services\Ext2fs\Parameters","TriggerLargeFileFeature",0x1
0x4,"ControlSet001\Services\Ext2fs\Parameters","DisableLastAccessUpdate",0x0
0x4,"ControlSet001\Services\IfsDrives","Type",0x1
0x4,"ControlSet001\Services\IfsDrives","Start",0x1
0x4,"ControlSet001\Services\IfsDrives","ErrorControl",0x1
0x2,"ControlSet001\Services\IfsDrives","ImagePath","system32\DRIVERS\IfsDrives.sys"

[Append]
nu2menu.xml, ext2ifs_nu2menu.xml

6. Create a file called "ext2ifs_nu2menu.xml" in the "ext2ifs" folder and paste the following text into it:

<!-- Nu2Menu entry for ext2ifs -->
<NU2MENU>
	<MENU ID="System">      
  <MITEM TYPE="ITEM" DISABLED="@Not(@FileExists(@GetWinDir()\system32\ifsdrives.cpl))" CMD="RUN" FUNC="rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL @GetWinDir()\system32\ifsdrives.cpl">Ext2Ifs Config</MITEM>
	</MENU>
</NU2MENU>

7. Stick the "ext2ifs" folder in your plugin directory so that BartPe will find it and create a new UBCD4Win disc.

That's it... it should work like this.

Once you have created the CD, the driver should get loaded at boot. You can then go to your "UBCD4Win" button in the bottom left corner and there should be an entry "Ext2Ifs Config" under "System", where you can access the driver's config tool normally located in the windows "control panel".

Well, I hope you guys have fun with this. I am still learning and I adapted this to Nu2menu since the instructions that were given to me were for XPE.

I'd be very interested in feedback!!! Are you going to try it? Please let me know if it works for you!!!!

Thanks!!!!

This post has been edited by whitephantom: 11 August 2005 - 10:22 AM

[pcuser]

Great job Whitephantom!

This will be a nice addition to my cd.

Thanks,

Tom

[stidyup]

Hopefully Steel will be able to add this to the next release when he get's his DSL back.