Thanks to recent help from Nico Galoppo & Peter Makholm I have installed the crucial RPM's that I need using Alien. They work great!!
Now that I know I will be able to use this system I wish to load my files from tapes. I am confused over whether I should have Ftape selected in the drivers selection screen during install or accept the package Ftape and Ftape-Utils in dselect. They are automatically selected using the "Dial-Up" setup option. I am using Cheapbytes "SLINK" CD's by the way. Should I have one of these or both? I see the config stage of dselect report that this version of Ftape is for Kernal 2.0.34. I believe the CD's automatically install version 2.0.36. Is this the problem? On my other system I compile ftape-3.04d as a module but the process I use assumes a /usr/src/linux that is not on Debian. I would then use:- modprobe zftape ; modprobe zft-compressor tar xvf /dev/nqft0 to restore. Can someone kindly point me in the right direction. Paul Clark