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- <sect1 id="ch-tools-hostreqs">
- <title>Host system requirements</title>
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- <para>Due to the experimental nature of the current book, the host must be
- running at <emphasis>least</emphasis> a 2.6.2 kernel. The reasons for this high
- requirement is the use of NPTL, but more importantly the use of udev. Udev
- creates devices dynamically by reading from the <systemitem class="filesystem">sysfs</systemitem> file system. Only very
- recently has support for this file system been implemented in most of the kernel
- drivers, however. We must be sure that all the critical system devices get
- created properly.</para>
- <para>As for obtaining such a kernel, let's hope you distributor has provided
- a 2.6 kernel package for you. If so, install it. If not, you'll have to compile
- 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
- 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
- tarball and check out the README on how to get module support for 2.6.</para>
- </sect1>
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