On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 03:39:42PM -0600, Allen wrote:
> I'm trying to compile ftape on Caldera OpenLinux (2.2.10). My tape
> drive is an HP/Colorado IDE 5GB Travan.
>
> I went to http://www.LinuxTapeCert.com/ and clicked on TechHelp. It
> says "For Normal Floppy Tape drives on the builtin floppy controller
> (FDC), no changes [to MCONFIG] are required." Then the TechHelp says
> just do a "make". I do that and I get:
>
> [lots of other stuff omitted]
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux/.config', needed by
> `.ftape-setup.d'. Stop.
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/allen/dl/ftape/ftape-4.x-1999_09_11/ftape/setup'
> make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/allen/dl/ftape/ftape-4.x-1999_09_11/ftape'
> make: *** [all] Error
It's trying to read a file, created when you configure Linux kernel
source for building, that describes some kernel settings. If you don't
want to create it, look in MCONFIG for instructions on how to live
without it.
Nathan
>
> What now? Thanks.
> -Allen
>
