I just made the switch from Caldera OpenLinux 1.1 to Red Hat 5.0 (good
job, Red Hat...nice system). Before blowing away the Caldera system, I
backed up everything I wanted to preserve on a floppy tape drive using
tar. Once it was backed up, I extracted it to make sure the archive was
OK, then backed up the extracted stuff to another tape, again using tar.
When I tried to extract it to the Red Hat system, tar came back and
said, "Hmmmm...this doesn't look like a tar archive." This is the
response you get if you try to untar a compressed tar archive. Thinking
I may have compressed it, I dd'd the first part of the archive off and
looked at it. The script I used to back up was the first file on the
tape, and sure enough, the archive is *not* compressed.
One difference I've noticed is that Red Hat ships with ftape 2.x, and I
was running ftape 3.x (zftape) on the Caldera box. I tried compiling
zftape on the Red Hat box, and it seemed to compile OK, but when I try
to insmod the zftape driver, I get a bunch of "Unresolved symbol"
errors. What are these? Also, the linux source is not on the box
(didn't install it). Do I need that to get zftape compiled correctly?
TIA.
Mike
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