On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 09:52:13AM -, Paul wrote:
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?
The ftape driver during install is the kernel module for the installed
kernel. These (for 2.0.36) are version 2 of ftape (the 2.2 kernels
have version 3.04d). The dselect packages are for a different version
of ftape, 4.03pre1.
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?
Yes, they need to be compiled with the kernel you are using. Slink does
not appear to have the ftape modules packaged for the installed kernel.
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.
Install the kernel-source-2.0.36 package (or get the source for 2.0.37,
the latest of the 2.0x series from one of the linux.kernel.org mirrors).
With that you can either compile the kernel with the built-in older
version of ftape (not recommended) or compile the kernel without ftape
support and separately compile ftape-3.04d or the newer 4.0x version
available from http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
If you compile your own kernel, you should consider using the features
of the Debian kernel-package package.
Bob
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