"I am running rpm as root and I know this rpm installs fine on RH. Can someone tell me why I'm getting this error on Mandrake? TIA."
Over the years I installed ftape-4.02 on SuSE 6.4, 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1. The reasons that I can think of why it might not work on Mandrake are:
The permissions on /dev/nqft0 might not be set to crw-rw----
The Mandrake rpm package may be screwed up. In which case you could try installing ftape from source.
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