On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 09:52:13AM -0000, 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 -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
