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| 6 | <sect1 id="ch-tools-hostreqs">
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| 7 | <title>Host system requirements</title>
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| 10 | <para>Due to the experimental nature of this book, the host must be running at
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| 11 | <emphasis>least</emphasis> a 2.6.2 kernel. The reasons for this high requirement
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| 12 | is the use of NPTL, but more importantly the use of udev. Udev creates devices
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| 13 | dynamically by reading from the sysfs file system. Only very recently has
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| 14 | support for this file system been implemented in most of the kernel drivers,
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| 15 | however. We must be sure that all the critical system devices get created
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| 16 | properly.</para>
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| 18 | <para>As for obtaining such a kernel, let's hope you distributor has provided
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| 19 | a 2.6 kernel package for you. If so, install it. If not, you'll have to compile
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| 20 | it yourself. If you're forced into a situation where you need to compile it
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| 21 | yourself, it is highly recommended that you compile your kernel in a monolithic
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| 22 | manner, as you probably don't want to go fiddling with your hosts module
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| 23 | utilities. Supposing you don't want to listen, open up the module-init-tools
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| 24 | tarball and check out the README on how to get module support for 2.6.</para>
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