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1 #! /usr/bin/perl
2
3 # $Id$
4 # Main page of 'My::Project::captive'
5 # Copyright (C) 2003 Jan Kratochvil <project-www.jankratochvil.net@jankratochvil.net>
6
7 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 # the Free Software Foundation; exactly version 2 of June 1991 is required
10
11 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
14 # GNU General Public License for more details.
15
16 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
18 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
19
20
21 package project::captive::Index;
22 require 5.6.0;  # at least 'use warnings;' but we need some 5.6.0+ modules anyway
23 our $VERSION=do { my @r=(q$Revision$=~/\d+/g); sprintf "%d.".("%03d"x$#r),@r; };
24 our $CVS_ID=q$Id$;
25 use strict;
26 use warnings;
27
28 BEGIN{ open F,"Makefile"; our $top_dir=pop @{[split /\s/,(grep /^top_srcdir/,<F>)[0]]}; eval "use lib '$top_dir'"; close F; }
29 use My::Web;
30 Wuse 'My::Project';
31 Wuse 'project::captive::ListItem';
32
33
34 my $W=My::Project->init_project(
35                 "__PACKAGE__"=>__PACKAGE__,
36                 "ListItem"=>\@project::captive::ListItem::ListItem,
37                 "no_project_data"=>1,
38                 "head_css"=>"
39 .reqpkg { font-style: italic; }
40 .stuff  { font-style: italic; font-size: larger; margin-left: 20%; margin-right: 10%; }
41 .re     { font-style: italic; }
42 table.mailman > * /* FIXME: What is it? */ > tr > th,
43 table.mailman > * /* FIXME: What is it? */ > tr > td { padding: 1ex; text-align: center; }
44 ",
45                 );
46
47
48 print <<"HERE";
49 <h1>The First free Read/Write NTFS for Free Operating Systems</h1>
50 <h1>The First Open Source MS-Windows Kernel API for Free OS</h1>
51 HERE
52
53 my @stuff=(
54                 "A lot of people claim to be Windows Programmers.\n"
55                                 ." Now, I can join them at last - I have also written my own Microsoft Windows.",
56                 "Why do they need ".a_href('http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winserver2k3_gold2.asp','5,000 developers')
57                                 ." to write Microsoft Windows when it can be just a One Man Show?",
58                 "My first Microsoft Windows program ever written? Some 'helloworld'?"
59                                 ." <span class=\"quote\">hal.dll</span>.",
60                 );
61
62 print rightimg((map("<p class=\"stuff\">$_</p>\n",($stuff[int rand @stuff])))[0],
63                 'captive-install-acquire-small','[ Captive Microsoft Windows Drivers Acquire Illustration ]',
64                                 "a_href_img"=>'captive-install-acquire');
65
66 print <<"HERE";
67
68
69 @{[ vskip "3ex" ]}
70
71 <p class="stuff">
72         Why did I install Microsoft Windows and write such a disgusting piece of code?<br />
73         Expecting @{[ a_href $W->{"resume_url"},"yet another challenging task" ]}!
74 </p>
75
76 @{[ vskip "3ex" ]}
77
78
79 <table border="1" align="center" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"><tr><th>Distribution</th>
80                 <th>Installation Case #1<br />Filesystem and installer<br />(recommended)</th>
81                 <th>Installation Case #2<br />Manual installation<br />(filesystem, expert user)</th>
82                 <th>Installation Case #3<br />Command-line client<br />(no filesystem access)</th></tr>
83 HERE
84 my %pkg=(
85                 1=>[qw(captive captive-lufs captive-install lufs gnome-vfs-httpcaptive ntfsprogs ntfsprogs-gnomevfs)],
86                 2=>[qw(captive captive-lufs                 lufs)],
87                 3=>[qw(captive)],
88                 );
89 my %reqpkg=(
90                 1 =>[qw(glib2 gnome-vfs2 ORBit2 libxml2 openssl popt readline libgnomeui)],
91                 23=>[qw(glib2 gnome-vfs2 ORBit2 libxml2 openssl popt readline)],
92                 );
93 my %version=(
94                 map(($_=>["1.0","0"]),qw(captive captive-lufs captive-install)),
95                 "lufs"=>["0.9.6","1captive6"],
96                 "gnome-vfs-httpcaptive"=>["2.3.8captive2","0"],
97                 "ntfsprogs"=>["200309071734","1captive1"],
98                 "ntfsprogs-gnomevfs"=>["1.0.2","0"],
99                 );
100 my %has_rh8=(map(($_=>1),qw(
101                 gnome-vfs-httpcaptive
102                 captive
103                 captive-lufs
104                 captive-install
105                 )));
106 my %has_mdk91=(map(($_=>1),qw(
107                 gnome-vfs-httpcaptive
108                 lufs
109                 captive
110                 captive-lufs
111                 captive-install
112                 )));
113 my %has_devel=(map(($_=>1),qw(
114                 ntfsprogs
115                 )));
116 my %pkg_nosrc=(map(($_=>1),qw(
117                 captive-lufs
118                 captive-install
119                 )));
120
121 my $case;
122 my $a_href_arch=sub ($$%)
123 {
124 my($file_base,$text,%args)=@_;
125
126         $text=~s/[._]\D.*$// if $case!=1 && $text!~/^[.]/;
127         return a_href $file_base,$text,"size"=>($case==1),%args;
128 };
129
130 my @libxml2_rh8_pkgs=qw(libxml2-2.5.4-1.i386.rpm libxml2-python-2.5.4-1.i386.rpm libxml2-devel-2.5.4-1.i386.rpm);
131
132 my @dist=(
133                 {
134                         "name"=>"Red Hat 9<br />Shrike i386",
135                         "out"=>sub {
136                                 my($pkg,$version_base,$version_ext)=@_;
137                                         my $file="$pkg-$version_base-$version_ext.i386.rpm";
138                                         my $r=&$a_href_arch("dist/$file",$file);
139                                         (my $filedev=$file)=~s/^\Q$pkg\E-/${pkg}-devel-/;
140                                         $r.="<br />".&$a_href_arch("dist/$filedev",$filedev) if $has_devel{$pkg};
141                                         return $r;
142                                 },
143                         },
144                 {
145                         "name"=>"Red Hat 8<br />Psyche i386<br />"
146                                         ."(".a_href("#libxml2_rh8","libxml2 upgrade note").")",
147                         "out"=>sub {
148                                 my($pkg,$version_base,$version_ext)=@_;
149                                         my $file="$pkg-$version_base-$version_ext".(!$has_rh8{$pkg} ? "" : "rh8").".i386.rpm";
150                                         my $r=&$a_href_arch("dist/$file",$file);
151                                         (my $filedev=$file)=~s/^\Q$pkg\E-/${pkg}-devel-/;
152                                         $r.="<br />".&$a_href_arch("dist/$filedev",$filedev) if $has_devel{$pkg};
153                                         if ($pkg eq "captive-install") {
154                                                 for (@libxml2_rh8_pkgs) {
155                                                         $r.="<br />".&$a_href_arch('ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/'.$_,$_)." of Red Hat 9";
156                                                         }
157                                                 }
158                                         return $r;
159                                 },
160                         },
161                 {
162                         "name"=>"Mandrake 9.1<br />Bamboo i586",
163                         "out"=>sub {
164                                 my($pkg,$version_base,$version_ext)=@_;
165                                         my $file="$pkg-$version_base-$version_ext".(!$has_mdk91{$pkg} ? ".i386.rpm" : "mdk91.i586.rpm");
166                                         my $r=&$a_href_arch("dist/$file",$file);
167                                         (my $filedev=$file)=~s/^\Q$pkg\E-/${pkg}-devel-/;
168                                         $r.="<br />".&$a_href_arch("dist/$filedev",$filedev) if $has_devel{$pkg};
169                                         return $r;
170                                 },
171                         },
172                 {
173                         "name"=>"Debian GNU/Linux<br />'unstable' i386",
174                         "out"=>sub {
175                                 my($pkg,$version_base,$version_ext)=@_;
176                                         $version_ext=~s/^\d+//;
177                                         my $file="${pkg}_$version_base".($version_ext=~/^\d+$/ ? "" : $version_ext)."_i386.deb";
178                                         my $r=&$a_href_arch("dist/$file",$file);
179                                         (my $filedev=$file)=~s/^\Q$pkg\E_/${pkg}-dev_/;
180                                         $r.="<br />".&$a_href_arch("dist/$filedev",$filedev) if $has_devel{$pkg};
181                                         return $r;
182                                 },
183                         },
184                 {
185                         "name"=>"Sources (.tar.gz)",
186                         "out"=>sub {
187                                 my($pkg,$version_base,$version_ext)=@_;
188                                         return () if $pkg_nosrc{$pkg};
189                                         $version_ext=~s/^\d+//;
190                                         my $file="$pkg-$version_base".($version_ext=~/^\d+$/ ? "" : $version_ext).".tar.gz";
191                                         return $file,$file;
192                                 },
193                         },
194                 {
195                         "name"=>"Sources (.src.rpm)<br />(Red Hat 9 - Shrike)",
196                         "out"=>sub {
197                                 my($pkg,$version_base,$version_ext)=@_;
198                                         return () if $pkg_nosrc{$pkg};
199                                         my $file="$pkg-$version_base-$version_ext.src.rpm";
200                                         return $file,$file;
201                                 },
202                         },
203                 );
204
205 for my $dist (@dist) {
206         print "<tr>";
207                 print "<td>".$dist->{"name"}."</td>";
208                 for my $casel (1,2,3) {
209                         $case=$casel;
210                         print "<td>";
211                         print join("<br />",map({ my $pkg=$_;
212                                 my($file,$text)=&{$dist->{"out"}}($pkg,@{$version{$pkg}});
213                                 (!defined $text ? ($file) || () : (&$a_href_arch("dist/$file",$text)));
214                                 } @{$pkg{$case}}));
215                         print "</td>";
216                         }
217         print "</tr>\n";
218         }
219 print "<tr style=\"height: 2ex;\"></tr>\n";
220 print "<tr>";
221         print "<td>Package Requirements</td>";
222         for my $case (1,23) {
223                 print "<td".($case==23 ? ' colspan="2"' : '').">";
224                 print join(", ",map("<span class=\"reqpkg\">$_</span>",@{$reqpkg{$case}}));
225                 print "</td>";
226                 }
227 print "</tr>\n";
228 print <<"HERE";
229 </table>
230
231 <blockquote>
232         <p><a name="libxml2_rh8"><b><i>Red Hat 8 Psyche</i> upgrade of <i>libxml2</i> package:</b></a>
233         Upgrade only the packages already installed on your system to prevent
234         many dependency requirements - do not use &quot;<code>rpm -U</code>&quot;,
235         use &quot;<code>rpm -F</code>&quot; instead:</p>
236         <blockquote><p class="quote">
237                 <code>rpm -F @{[ join(" ",@libxml2_rh8_pkgs) ]}</code>
238         </p></blockquote>
239 </blockquote>
240
241 @{[ vskip "3ex" ]}
242
243
244 <h1>Installation Notes</h1>
245
246 <p>You should first run <b>captive-install-acquire</b> command to check your
247 available Microsoft Windows drivers versions. Now you can execute:</p>
248
249 <blockquote>
250         <p class="quote">
251                 # mkdir /mnt/dosc<br />
252                 # mount -t captive-ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosc
253         </p>
254 </blockquote>
255
256
257 <h2>Overview</h2>
258
259 <p>'<b>captive</b>' is the base package. It contains debugging '<b>captive-cmdline</b>' client.<br />
260 '<b>captive-lufs</b>' permits mounting NTFS as regular filesystem. It needs '<b>lufs</b>'.<br />
261 '<b>lufs</b>' is a daemon to enable userland process to provide filesystem functions.</p>
262
263 <p>Any errors from '<b>captive-lufs</b>' are written to '<b>/var/log/messages</b>'.</p>
264
265 <p>Needed drivers (at least ntoskrnl.exe+ntfs.sys) must be in '<b>/var/lib/captive</b>'.</p>
266
267 <p>'<b>captive</b>' package creates '<b>captive</b>' user and '<b>captive</b>' group on your system.</p>
268
269
270 <h2>Package Version Conflicts</h2>
271
272 <dl>
273
274 <dt>@{[ a_href 'http://lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs/','lufs' ]}</dt>
275 <dd><p><b>'captive' version required</b>: Although you may already have the
276 original package installed you must replace it by the local 'captive'-marked
277 version containing some 'captive'-essential fixes and extensions.</p></dd>
278
279 <dt>@{[ a_href 'http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/','ntfsprogs' ]}</dt>
280 <dd><p><b>Original version >=200309071734 sufficient</b>:
281 The package which is downloadable from here, has no code patches - you can freely use the
282 original version instead. Unfortunately, the last public release is
283 <b>1.7.1</b> while this project requires at least
284 @{[ a_href 'http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/snapshots/','snapshot' ]} version
285 <b>@{[ a_href 'http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ntfsprogs-200309071734.tar.bz2','200309071734' ]}</b>
286 which is not packaged (.rpm/.deb) yet. Packaged versions are provided here for
287 your convenience.</p></dd>
288
289 </dl>
290
291
292 <h2>LUFS Kernel Driver Module</h2>
293
294 <p>@{[ a_href 'http://lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs/','LUFS' ]} (Linux Userland File
295 System) needs Linux kernel module driver (<i>lufs.o</i>) compatible with your
296 running Linux kernel. The binary driver is supplied already precompiled for many
297 Linux kernel versions in the binary packages above (<b>.i386.rpm</b> and
298 <b>_i386.deb</b> archives).</p>
299
300 <p>If you cannot <b>mount</b>(8) your NTFS filesystem you should run <span
301 class="quote">/usr/share/lufs/prepmod</span> to see the reasons. It is always
302 recommended to upgrade to the latest stable kernel supplied by your GNU/Linux
303 distribution vendor. You may need to install package
304 <b>kernel-source</b> (Red Hat) or <b>kernel-headers</b> (Debian) matching your
305 Linux kernel version (<b>rpm&nbsp;-q&nbsp;kernel</b>) and re-run <span
306 class="quote">/usr/share/lufs/prepmod</span>.</p>
307
308 <p><b>WARNING:</b> This 'captive' package may modify your Linux kernel
309 sources matching your currently running kernel version. These minor
310 modifications may include a dependencies rebuild, compiling build tools, fixes of
311 several include files, etc. All the modifications are done at the mount(8) time
312 by the automatically executed <span class="quote">/usr/share/lufs/prepmod</span> script.
313 This behavior was not present in the original
314 @{[ a_href 'http://lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs/','LUFS' ]} distribution
315 by @{[ a_href 'http://www.malinux.net/main/','Florin Malita' ]}.</p>
316
317
318 HERE
319
320
321 print rightimg <<"HERE",'reactos','ReactOS',"a_href"=>'http://www.reactos.com/';
322         <h2>The First Open Source MS-Windows Kernel API for Free OS</h2>
323
324         <p>Compatibility with the existing binary Microsoft Windows file system drivers has been
325         reached. Microsoft Windows kernel system components required by these drivers
326         were analyzed and successfully emulated in the GNU/Linux operating system.
327         The project brings the Microsoft Windows kernel emulation framework to support even
328         other types of Microsoft Windows drivers in the future.
329         The <span class="productname">@{[ a_href 'http://www.reactos.com/','ReactOS' ]}</span>
330         code base proved to be a big asset for this functionality.</p>
331 HERE
332
333
334 my @lists=qw(captive-announce-list captive-list captive-devel-list);
335
336 print <<"HERE";
337
338 <a name="lists"><h2>Mailing Lists</h2></a>
339
340 <form action="@{[ top_dir("/Mailman.pl") ]}" method="post">
341         <table border="1" class="mailman" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px;">
342                 <tr>@{[ map("<th>$_</th>",@lists) ]}</tr>
343                 <tr><td>New version announcements<br />
344                         (low traffic, recommended)</td>
345                                 <td>User support,<br />bug reports</td>
346                                 <td>Development</td>
347                                 </tr>
348                 <tr>@{[ map({ "<td>".a_href(&{$W->{"mailman_url_sub"}}()."/listinfo/$_",'Mailman Infopage')."</td>"; } @lists) ]}</tr>
349                 <tr>@{[ map({ "<td>".a_href(&{$W->{"pipermail_url_sub"}}()."/$_",'Archive')."</td>"; } @lists) ]}</tr>
350                 <tr>@{[
351                         map(('<td><input type="checkbox" name="list" value="'.$_.'"'
352                                         .($_ ne "captive-announce-list" ? '' : ' checked="checked"')
353                                         .' /> Subscribe?</td>'),@lists)
354                         ]}</tr>
355                 <tr><td colspan="3">
356                         <table border="0" style="text-align: left;">
357                                 <tr><td>Email address:            </td><td><input type="text"     name="email"   size="30" /></td></tr>
358                                 <tr><td>Your new Mailman password:</td><td><input type="password" name="pw"      size="15" /></td></tr>
359                                 <tr><td>Reenter your password:    </td><td><input type="password" name="pw-conf" size="15" /></td></tr>
360                         </table>
361                         <p><input type="submit" name="email-button" value="Subscribe me" /></p>
362                 </td></tr>
363         </table>
364 <input type="hidden" name="back" value="/project/captive/#lists" />
365 </form>
366
367
368 @{[ vskip "3ex" ]}
369
370 <h1>See Also</h1>
371 <ul>
372         <li>@{[ a_href 'Preview.html.pl','<span style="font-size: larger;">Technology Preview</span>' ]}</li>
373         <li>@{[ a_href 'CVS.html.pl','CVS Repository' ]}</li>
374         <li>@{[ a_href 'doc/','Developer Documentation' ]}; highlights:<ul>
375                 <li>@{[ a_href 'doc/About.html.pl#versions','Microsoft Windows Versions Compatibility' ]}</li>
376                 <li>@{[ a_href 'doc/Architecture.html.pl#law','Laws and Licensing Conditions' ]}</li>
377                 <li>@{[ a_href 'doc/Details.html.pl#sandbox','Sandboxing of W32 Filesystem' ]}</li>
378                 <li>@{[ a_href 'doc/TODO.html.pl#todo_fsck','TODO: Fsck of NTFS' ]}</li>
379                 <li>@{[ a_href 'doc/TODO.html.pl#todo_surprise','TODO: NTFS Support for Partition Surprise' ]}</li>
380                 <li>@{[ a_href 'doc/Related.html.pl#LinuxNTFScompet','Related Projects - Linux NTFS' ]}</li>
381                 <li>@{[ a_href 'doc/Related.html.pl#vmware','Related Projects - VMware Workstation' ]}</li>
382                 <li>@{[ a_href 'doc/LinuxNTFS.html.pl',"Re: 7.7 Can't we write a wrapper for Windows' driver?" ]}</li>
383                 </ul></li>
384         <li>@{[ a_href 'http://cvs.jankratochvil.net/viewcvs/*checkout*/captive/TODO?rev=HEAD','Known Bugs' ]}</li>
385         <li>Man Pages<ul>
386                 @{[
387                         do {
388                                 my @mans=(
389                                                 'captive'=>[7,'Microsoft Windows NT kernel emulation for NTFS disk access'],
390                                                 'mount.captive'=>[8,'mount(8) interface for NTFS disk access'],
391                                                 'lufs-captivefs'=>[7,'Linux Userland File System module for NTFS as filesystem'],
392                                                 'captive-cmdline'=>[1,'Command-line client for captive(7) NTFS disk access'],
393 ###                                             'captive-sandbox-server'=>[1,'Security+safety wrapper for NTFS disk access'],
394                                                 'captive-install-acquire'=>[1,'Find MS Windows XP driver files for NTFS'],
395 ###                                             'captive-install-fstab'=>[1,'Manage captive-ntfs /etc/fstab entries'],
396                                                 );
397                                 my @r;
398                                 while (@mans) {
399                                         my $file=shift @mans;
400                                         my($section,$name)=@{shift @mans};
401                                         push @r,"<li>".a_href("man/$file.pod.html",$file)."($section) - $name</li>\n";
402                                         }
403                                 @r;
404                                 }
405                         ]}
406                 </ul></li>
407         <li>@{[ a_href 'Resources.html.pl','Related Pages' ]}</li>
408         <li>@{[ a_href 'Thanks.html.pl','Thanks' ]}</li>
409 </ul>
410 HERE
411
412
413 My::Web->footer();