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5.5: Installing the kernel modules and utilities

NOTE: You have to be `root' to install the driver. Either you login as root or do a `su' at the shell prompt.

The makefile contains an `install' target. Before actually running `make install' you should check MCONFIG for correctness of the installation prefixes. The following table lists the makefile variables and their default values(1):

MODULESDIR
`/lib/modules/kernel_version/misc'
BINDIR
`/usr/bin/'
SBINDIR
`/sbin/'
MANDIR
`/usr/man/'
DOCDIR
`/usr/doc/'
INFODIR
`/usr/info/'

Just typing

make install

in the top directory of the ftape sources will result in the following actions:

crw------- 1 root root 27, 4 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nqft0 crw------- 1 root root 27, 5 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nqft1 crw------- 1 root root 27, 6 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nqft2 crw------- 1 root root 27, 7 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nqft3 crw------- 1 root root 27, 36 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nrawft0 crw------- 1 root root 27, 37 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nrawft1 crw------- 1 root root 27, 38 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nrawft2 crw------- 1 root root 27, 39 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nrawft3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nrft0 -> nqft0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nrft1 -> nqft1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nrft2 -> nqft2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nrft3 -> nqft3 crw------- 1 root root 27, 20 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nzqft0 crw------- 1 root root 27, 21 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nzqft1 crw------- 1 root root 27, 22 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nzqft2 crw------- 1 root root 27, 23 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/nzqft3 crw------- 1 root root 27, 0 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/qft0 crw------- 1 root root 27, 1 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/qft1 crw------- 1 root root 27, 2 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/qft2 crw------- 1 root root 27, 3 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/qft3 crw------- 1 root root 27, 32 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/rawft0 crw------- 1 root root 27, 33 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/rawft1 crw------- 1 root root 27, 34 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/rawft2 crw------- 1 root root 27, 35 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/rawft3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/rft0 -> qft0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/rft1 -> qft1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/rft2 -> qft2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/rft3 -> qft3 crw------- 1 root root 27, 16 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/zqft0 crw------- 1 root root 27, 17 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/zqft1 crw------- 1 root root 27, 18 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/zqft2 crw------- 1 root root 27, 19 Mar 25 13:10 /dev/zqft3


(1) Note that kernel_version stands for the version of the kernel ftape was compiled for which is determined by parsing the file `LINUX_LOCATION/include/linux/versions.h', see MCONFIG


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