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Chapter 4: Quick Installation Guide

Please read through the chapter `Installation', (see Installation) if you don't arrive at installing ftape with this `Quick Installation' chapter.

You don't need to install this version of ftape if you are running Linux version v2.2 or higher because ftape-4.03 is already included in the kernel source tree. The kernel configuration menu will give you on-line help while configuring the ftape driver. Maybe you still want to read some passages of the `Requirements' section of the `Installation' chapter. See Requirements. But otherwise you can ignore this chapter, as well as the next chapter (see Installation) get the ftape-tools package from the Ftape Home Page or from ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/ and proceed directly to the chapter that deals with testing the driver (see Testing ftape).

You may also want to consult the

Ftape-FAQ(1)

and the file [/usr/src/ftape-4.03/]BUGS of the ftape distribution if something went wrong.

If you are running a pre-2.0.0 Linux (2) then you are out of luck. Please read the Chapter `Installation'. See Installation.

Otherwise, try to proceed as follows:


(1) See http://www.correct.nl/~ftape for a more recent version.

(2) You can determine the version of the running kernel with the command `uname -r' or by examining the file `/proc/version'. The version of the kernel sources under `/usr/src/linux/' can be determined by examining the file `/usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h'.


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