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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!gi101 From: gi101@cus.cam.ac.uk (G. Ioannou) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help with 2.0.5 Tape Install Date: 5 Sep 1995 17:09:00 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Lines: 31 Message-ID: <42i07c$s13@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: gi101@cam.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: grus.cus.cam.ac.uk I am trying to install the 2.0.5 release from a Colorado Jumbo 250 tape drive. I booted from the floppy created with rawrite from 2.0.5-RELEASE/floppies/boot.flp, and noted that the kernel correctly reported my tape drive. The tape was present in the drive from bootup. After going through everything and selecting the Commit option, and specifying a temp directory, I got an error message saying "tape exit status 1". The debug screen showed a "/dev/rft0 no such file or directory" (or something like that) error message. I went to the shell on F4, cd'd to /dev, and tried "echo *" (ls did not seem to be available). The list of devices did not contain an rft0 device, but it did contain an ft0. I tried "ft rewind" and received, as expected, an error as above. When I tried "ft -f /dev/ft0 rewind", however, I got a proper response from the drive and no error messages. Therefore I think the problem is simply that there is no /dev/rft0 device on the boot floppy, simply a matter of doing an mknod. However, since the shell environment available on F4 during installation is so restricted, I can't see any way to correct this, or possibly change the install script to use /dev/ft0. Any ideas? TIA for any help. -- George Ioannou gi101@cam.ac.uk