Hub/Switch Installation Guide

Chapter 3 System Preparation

196 September 2002 HPSS Installation Guide

Release 4.5, Revision 2

1. Download the patch, kaio-2.4.18-1.tar, from the HPSS website

(http://www4.clearlake.ibm.com/hpss/support/patches/kaio-2.4.18-

1.tar).

2. Untar the downloaded ﬁle.

% tar -xvf kaio-2.4.18-1.tar

3. Copy kaio-2.4.18-1 (the patch ﬁle) to /usr/src.

% cp kaio-2.4.18-1 /usr/src

4. Change directory to /usr/src/linux-2.4.18 (or the root of your 2.4.18 kernel tree).

% cd linux-2.4.18

5. Apply the patch

% patch -p1 < ../kaio-2.4.18-1

6. Run make conﬁg and answer yes when questioned about AIOsupport. Thedefault value

of 4096shouldbesufﬁcient for the numberofsystem-wideAIOrequests. At thistime,you

should also conﬁgurethe kernel to support yourdisk ortape devices. If tape deviceaccess

is required, be sure to also enable the kernel for SCSI tape support.

7. Remake the dependencies

% make dep

8. Build a new kernel

% make bzImage

9. Copy the bzImage to /boot, add a new stanza to the /etc/lilo.conf ﬁle, and run /sbin/lilo.

% cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-kaio

% vi /etc/lilo.conf

% /sbin/lilo

10. IfyouneedtorebuildtheHPSSMover,makealinkfrom/usr/src/linux/include/linux/aio.h

to /usr/include/linux/aio.h.

% cd /usr/include/linux

% ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux/aio.h

3.11 Verify System Readiness

The customer is responsible for providing the following material for the Test Readiness Review:

• Conﬁguration diagram(s) showing the type and layout of hardware (nodes, robots,

devices, networks, etc.) and the allocation of HPSS servers and clients.