User`s manual

Installation Guide 33
Linux Driver Installation
Prepare Operating System - Install RedHat 9
This section describes how to install RadHat 9 if your system
does not have Linux operation system on the computer.
1. Partition a free section about 10G size from hard disk
before install RH9.
2. Insert the RH9 CD into your CD driver and reboot with
CD supported.
3. System will install automatically after computer reboots.
4. Follow Linux installation step by step.
Note: It is preferred to install all packages for upgrading Linux ker-
nel.
Upgrade Linux Kernel to 2.6.9
This section describes how to upgrade Linux kernel to 2.6.9
using the following steps:
1. If you do not have Linux kernel 2.6.9 source code,
please download it from http://www.kernel.org. The com-
pressed Linux kernel package is named as linux-
2.6.9.tar.bz2.
2. Uncompress the source code to the target directory /usr/
src with the root account.
3. Uncompress the source code.
# cd /usr/src
# tar jxvf linux-2.6.9.tar.bz2
4. Make a link from /usr/src/linux-2.6.9 to /usr/src/linux.
# cd /usr/src
# rm -Rf linux
# ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.9 linux
5. Remove the object files and the dep files from the source
code.
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make clean; make mrproper