Provide clearer information on how to determine whether the host kernel is suitable for performing glibc's testsuite

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<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter05 - hostreqs. Provide clearer
information regarding determining whether the host kernel is suitable for
passing glibcs testsuite</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter06 - creatingdirs. Use <listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter06 - creatingdirs. Use
`install -d` instead of `mkdir` (fixes bug #821)</para></listitem> `install -d` instead of `mkdir` (fixes bug #821)</para></listitem>

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drivers, however. We must be sure that all the critical system devices get drivers, however. We must be sure that all the critical system devices get
created properly.</para> created properly.</para>
<para>As for obtaining such a kernel, let's hope you distributor has provided <para>In order to check that your host kernel meets the requirements outlined
a 2.6 kernel package for you. If so, install it. If not, you'll have to compile above, you can run the following command:</para>
it yourself. If you're forced into a situation where you need to compile it
yourself, it is highly recommended that you compile your kernel in a monolithic <screen><userinput>cat /proc/version</userinput></screen>
manner, as you probably don't want to go fiddling with your hosts module
utilities. Supposing you don't want to listen, open up the module-init-tools <para>This will produce output similar to:</para>
tarball and check out the README on how to get module support for 2.6.</para>
<blockquote><screen><computeroutput>Linux version 2.6.2 (user@host) (gcc version 3.4.0) #1 Tue Apr 20 21:22:18 GMT 2004</computeroutput></screen></blockquote>
<para>If the results of the above command state that your host kernel wasn't
compiled using a GCC-3.0 (or later) compiler, you will need to compile one
yourself, and reboot your host to use the newly compiled kernel. Instructions
for compiling the kernel and configuring the bootloader (assuming your host uses
GRUB) are given in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
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