RE: Installation Help - tape backup

["Mugleston, Brad" <brad mugleston gwl com>]

Thank you too, this is great help.  How do I set an environment variable?
No config.sys that I can see :-)

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob McClure Jr [mailto:robertmcclure earthlink net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 10:27 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Installation Help - tape backup

Support for it ((z)ftape) is part of the kernel.
Add this line to your /etc/modules.conf:

alias char-major-27 zftape

Then watch /var/log/messages while you try to run something like

mt -f /dev/nftape retension

You may want to set the environment variable TAPE=/dev/nftape.  Then
you won't have to specify the "-f /dev/nftape" for mt.
Also you will probably want to make /dev/nqft0 world writable:

 chmod 666 /dev/nqft0

(nftape is a symlink to nqft0.)

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.cumbytel.com/~bobcatos/
Linux: because I want to get there today.  Without rebooting.



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