Please read through the chapter `Installation
', (see Installation)
if you don't arrive at installing ftape with this `Quick Installation
'
chapter.
You may also want to consult the Ftape-FAQ and the file BUGS if something went wrong.
If you are running a pre-2.0.0 Linux (1) then you are out of
luck. Please read the Chapter `Installation
'. See Installation.
Otherwise, try to proceed as follows:
FDC_OPT
' make
variable. If you don't have a kernel source tree installed (normally
under `/usr/src/linux/
') then you will need to set some other
options manually. The options in question start with
`CONFIG_...
'. Please follow the instruction in the file
MCONFIG.
If you do have a kernel source tree then please make sure that you have
configured it correctly. The configuration of the kernel sources should
match the configuration of the kernel you intend to use ftape with. In
this case ftape will use the configuration options of the kernel and
figure out the proper values of the `CONFIG_...
' options itself.
make
in the top directory of the ftape source tree.
ftape_syms.c:60: macro `_basic_version' used with just one arg
during compilation then you have enabled the `CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
'
flag in the file MCONFIG and are using a kernel without support
for so called `versioned symbols
'. This doesn't work. Edit
MCONFIG and disable the CONFIG_MODVERSIONS switch
(see CONFIG_MODVERSIONS).
make install
You need to be `root
' for the latter (i.e. do `su ; make
install
').
modprobe zftape ; modprobe zft-compressor
This will load the four modules `ftape.o
', `zftape.o
' and
`zft-compressor.o
'. You can use some standard Un*x commands to test
the driver (e.g. mt
or tar
, see Testing ftape)
modutils
'
package (see Requirements) or you are using a kernel of the 2.1.*
series configured to use `versioned symbols
' and didn't enable the
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS flag in the file MCONFIG (or vice
versa). Check your kernel configuration and edit MCONFIG
appropriately.
.o
' files type in (at the shell prompt)
make clean
This will also delete the compiled programs in the `./contrib/
'
subdirectory. Note that this will not delete the pre-formatted
versions of the documentation.
If you want to remove everything including the pre-formatted documentation, then you have to run
make realclean
Note that you need perl
version 5 to rebuild the
HTML version of the manual, and that you need texinfo
version 3.9 or above to rebuild either the info or dvi version
of the manual. To rebuild the HTML version use the texi-to-html
converter `./contrib/scripts/texi2www
'.
(1) 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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