On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 09:43:02AM -0400, Billy B. McCoy wrote:
> I have RH5.2(2.0.36) loaded on an i586 box.
> I have been trying to install a floppy tape drive.
> I downloaded the latest releases:
> 'ftape-4.x-1999_04_25.tar.gz' &
> 'ftape-doc-1999_03_17.tar.gz'
> 1) Where should the extracted files be placed? ie: /usr/src/tape/
This doesn't matter, because make install will place the
binaries into the right directory. I myself place added software
usually into /usr/local/src/. And the binaries can be found in
/usr/local/bin/.
> 2) I wanted to install the floppy patch but could not locate the
> 'floppy.c.dif' file anywhere on my system.
Do you really need it? This file should nevertheless be able to found
at
/ftape-4.x-1999_02_26/patches/v2.0/floppy.c.dif
(or what version you exactly downloaded...)
> 3) In the 'MCONFIG' file, should the %LINUX_LOCATION point to
> /usr/src/linux <or> /usr/src/linux-2.0.36 ?
You can leave it as /usr/src/linux if /usr/src/linux is a valid
symbolic link to /usr/src/linux-2.0.36. If not, well, then create
this link or change the location in MCONFIG accordingly.
> 4) There is no /usr/src/linux/.config file, and the 'make'
> produces errors without it. (/var/log/messages too long to attach :(
Well, you can go into /usr/src/linux-2.0.36/ and simply type
make xconfig, save and exit immediately and leave the kernel source
as it is. Required is only you have installed the kernel sources,
I know that redhat doesn't install them per default (except for those
include files), so a rpm -i kernel-source (or similarly) is going to
be necessary.
Bye, Juergen.
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