The Ftape Installation and Usage Guide
You don't need to install this version of ftape if you are running Linux version v2.2 or higher as 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 this chapter. See Requirements. But otherwise you can ignore this chapter, get theftape-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).
Requirements | What is needed for the Installation |
Kernel patches | Inclusion into kernel, compatibility patches |
Compiling ftape | Compiling ftape, compile time configuration |
Installing ftape | Installing the kernel modules and utilities |
Un-installing ftape | Un-installing the kernel modules and utilities |
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