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<title>Host System Requirements</title>
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- <para>Your host system should have the following software with the minimum
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- versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most modern Linux
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- distributions. Also note that many distributions will place software headers
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- into separate packages, often in the form of <quote>[package-name]-devel</quote>
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- or <quote>[package-name]-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those as well, if
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- your distribution provides them.</para>
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+ <para>Your host system should have the following software with the
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+ minimum versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most
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+ modern Linux distributions. Also note that many distributions will
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+ place software headers into separate packages, often in the form of
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+ <quote><package-name>-devel</quote> or
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+ <quote><package-name>-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if
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+ your distribution provides them. For each package a command has been
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+ added to help you to determine what version is installed on your
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+ host.</para>
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<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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+
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<listitem>
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- <para>Bash-2.05a</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis></para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>bash --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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<listitem>
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- <para>Binutils-2.12 (Versions greater than &binutils-version; not
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- recommended)</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.12</emphasis> (Versions
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+ greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
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+ not been tested)</para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>ld --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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<listitem>
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- <para>Bzip2-1.0.2</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>bzip2 --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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<listitem>
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- <para>Coreutils-5.0 (or Sh-Utils-2.0, Textutils-2.0,
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- and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0,
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+ Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>chonw --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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<listitem>
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- <para>Diffutils-2.8</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>diff --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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<listitem>
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- <para>Findutils-4.1.20</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>find --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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<listitem>
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- <para>Gawk-3.0</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.0</emphasis></para>
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>gawk --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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<listitem>
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- <para>Gcc-2.95.3 (Versions greater than &gcc-version; not
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- recommended)</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-2.95.3</emphasis> (Versions
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+ greater than &gcc-version; are not recommended as they have not
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+ been tested)</para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>gcc --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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<listitem>
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- <para>Glibc-2.2.5 (Versions greater than &glibc-version; not
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- recommended)</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (Versions
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+ greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have
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+ not been tested)</para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>/lib/libc.so.6</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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- <para>Grep-2.5</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>grep --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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- <para>Gzip-1.2.4</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>gzip --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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- <para>Linux Kernel-2.6.x (having been compiled with Gcc-3.0)</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Linux Kernel-2.6.x</emphasis>
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+ (having been compiled with Gcc-3.0)</para>
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+
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+ <para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that thread-local
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+ storage support in Binutils will not be built and the Native POSIX
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+ Threading Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the host's kernel
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+ isn't at least a 2.6.x version compiled with a 3.0 or later release of
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+ GCC.</para>
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+
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+ <para>In order to determine whether the host kernel meets the requirements
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+ outlined above, run the following command:</para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat /proc/version</userinput></screen>
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+
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+ <para>This will produce output similar to:</para>
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+
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+<screen><computeroutput>Linux version 2.6.2 (user@host) (gcc version 3.4.0) #1
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+ Tue Apr 20 21:22:18 GMT 2004</computeroutput></screen>
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+
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+ <para>If the results of the above command do not state that the host
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+ kernel is either 2.6.x, or that it was not compiled using a GCC-3.0
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+ (or later) compiler, you will have to replace the kernel with one
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+ adhering to the specifications. There are two methods you can take
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+ to solve this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a 2.6 kernel
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+ package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your vendor doesn't
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+ offer a 2.6 kernel package, or you would prefer not to install it,
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+ then you can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for compiling
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+ the kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host uses GRUB)
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+ are located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
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</listitem>
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+
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- <para>Make-3.79.1</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.79.1</emphasis></para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>make --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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- <para>Patch-2.5.4</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>patch --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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- <para>Sed-3.0.2</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>sed --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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+
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- <para>Tar-1.14</para>
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+ <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
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+
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+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>tar --version</userinput></screen>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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- <para>The reason for the kernel version requirement is that thread-local
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- storage support in Binutils will not be built and the Native POSIX Threading
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- Library (NPTL) test suite will segfault if the host's kernel isn't a 2.6
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- kernel and has not been compiled with GCC-3.0 or a later version.</para>
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-
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- <para>In order to determine whether the host kernel meets the requirements
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- outlined above, run the following command:</para>
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-
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-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat /proc/version</userinput></screen>
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-
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- <para>This will produce output similar to:</para>
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-
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-<screen><computeroutput>Linux version 2.6.2 (user@host) (gcc version 3.4.0) #1
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- Tue Apr 20 21:22:18 GMT 2004</computeroutput></screen>
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-
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- <para>If the results of the above command do not state that the host kernel
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- is either 2.6.x, or that it was not compiled using a GCC-3.0 (or
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- later) compiler, one will need to be installed. There are two methods you
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- can take to solve this. First, see if your Linux vendor provides a 2.6
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- kernel package. If so, you may wish to install it. If your vendor
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- doesn't offer a 2.6 kernel package, or you would prefer not to
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- install it, then you can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for
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- compiling the kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host
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- uses GRUB) are located in <xref linkend="chapter-bootable"/>.</para>
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</sect1>
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Manuel Canales Esparcia