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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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%general-entities;
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]>
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<sect1 id="ch-tools-hostreqs">
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<title>Host system requirements</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="hostreqs.html"?>
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<para>Due to the experimental nature of BE-LFS, the host must be running at
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<emphasis>least</emphasis> a 2.6.2 kernel. The reasons for this high requirement
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is the use of NPTL, but more importantly the use of udev. Udev creates devices
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dynamically by reading from the sysfs file system. Only very recently has
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support for this file system been implemented in most of the kernel drivers,
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however. We must be sure that all the critical system devices get created
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properly.</para>
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<para>As for obtaining such a kernel, let's hope you distributor has provided
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a 2.6 kernel package for you. If so, install it. If not, you'll have to compile
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it yourself. If you're forced into a situation where you need to compile it
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yourself, it is highly recommended that you compile your kernel in a monolithic
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manner, as you probably don't want to go fiddling with your hosts module
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utilities. Supposing you don't want to listen, open up the module-init-tools
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tarball and check out the README on how to get module support for 2.6.</para>
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</sect1>
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