From d1ebcc827ea8e54ee39e5c4750bef27bfd00c8bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Archaic Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:27:02 +0000 Subject: Moved the host requirements page to the preface section of the book. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@6218 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter05/chapter05.xml | 1 - chapter05/hostreqs.xml | 40 ---------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 41 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 chapter05/hostreqs.xml (limited to 'chapter05') diff --git a/chapter05/chapter05.xml b/chapter05/chapter05.xml index d604cfa96..8b3eedfd8 100644 --- a/chapter05/chapter05.xml +++ b/chapter05/chapter05.xml @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ - diff --git a/chapter05/hostreqs.xml b/chapter05/hostreqs.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 310d450d1..000000000 --- a/chapter05/hostreqs.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ - - - %general-entities; -]> - -Host System Requirements - - -The host must be running at least a 2.6.2 kernel compiled with -GCC-3.0 or higher. There are two main reasons for this high -requirement. First, the Native POSIX Threading Library (NPTL) -test suite will segfault if the host's kernel has not been compiled with -GCC-3.0 or a later version. Secondly, the 2.6.2 or later version of -the kernel is required for the use of Udev. Udev creates devices -dynamically by reading from the sysfs file system. However, support -for this filesystem has only recently been implemented in most of -the kernel drivers. We must be sure that all critical system devices -get created properly. - -In order to determine whether the host kernel meets the -requirements outlined above, run the following command: - -cat /proc/version - -This will produce output similar to: - -Linux version 2.6.2 (user@host) (gcc version 3.4.0) #1 - Tue Apr 20 21:22:18 GMT 2004 - -If the results of the above command state that the host kernel -was not compiled using a GCC-3.0 (or later) compiler, one will need to -be compiled. The host system will then need to be rebooted to use the -newly compiled kernel. Instructions for compiling the kernel and -configuring the boot loader (assuming the host uses GRUB) are located -in . - - - -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf