The Ftape Installation and Usage Guide - Inserting ftape
What follows are an example how to insert the driver manually into the
kernel using the modprobe
utility. Note that you have to be `root
' to do that.
As we use modprobe
which scans the `/etc/conf.modules
' file
there is no need to specify any modules options explicitly. Edit
`/etc/conf.modules
' instead! See Modifying `/etc/conf.modules
'. Some of the modprobe
runs
may exit with an error code, depending on your setup.
modprobe zftape modprobe zft-compressor modprobe ftape-internal modprobe trakker modprobe bpck-fdc
In detail, this has the following effect: modprobe
reads the file
`/etc/conf.modules
' and the file `/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.dep
' and deduces from the information found therein that is
has to do run the following commands in the given order:
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/ftape.o FTAPE_OPTIONS
|
/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/zftape.o
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/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/zft-compressor.o
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/usr/local/bin/swapout MEGS
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/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/ftape-internal.o FTAPE_INTERNAL_OPTIONS
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/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/trakker..o TRAKKER_OPTIONS
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/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/bpck-fdc.o BPCK_OPTIONS
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where the ...OPTIONS have to substituted by the values given in
the appropriate options
line for the respective
module. See Modifying `/etc/conf.modules
'. See Automated memory de-fragmentation. swapout
is only available on your system if
you installed the ftape-tools
package. Also `/usr/local/bin/
'
only reflects the default installation path of swapout
and may be
different on your system. See Optional utilities.
Of course, if you don't have a parallel port floppy tape drive then you may omit the lines
modprobe trakker modprobe bpck-fdc
and if you don't have an internal floppy tape drive, then
modprobe ftape-internal
isn't needed. If you are a first-time ftape user then you can omit
modprobe zft-compressor
as well as you don't need it. See Compatibility with ftape-3.04d.
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