It’s relatively easy to do.
Make sure your USB HDD drive is not plugged in. Open terminal and login to root.
Login to root by typing “su -”, then you’ll be asked for the password. This is the password you entered when you first logged into the netbook to set it up.
Then type “yum install ntfs-3g” and reboot. Put your drive back in the USB port and access it going to My Files in the menu.
Now you can use your USB HDD for storage and expansion.
Thanks to Sean from SeanSlater.biz for help with the terminal commands.
Cheers, worked perfectly for me.
Sounds easy but our machine came with the password already configured (and not disclosed) so can’t get into Root?
Either contact the person you bought it from or start looking for how to reset/crack the password. If it’s linux based you’re going to have a hard time.
Try sudo yum install ntfs-3g
I followed the instructions at the top of this page and they worked perfectly!
Thank you very much.
Awesome – thanks
worked like a charm!
to Stan and others with no knowledge of root password – try sudo su, that should get you logged in as root with your user password. from there you may be able to change the root password by saying passwd.