Operating instructions

Installing RTLinux

Installing RTLinux involves first installing a recent version of Linux on your PC and then

patching and rebuilding your kernel. Links for the software patches and instructions can

be found at:

http://www.opentech.at/howtos/multiboot-howto/html/index.html

In particular, I used the instructions at:

http://www.opentech.at/howtos/multiboot-howto/html/install_en_2.html

However, while installing on a RedHat 8 or RedHat 9 Linux system, I came up with the

following notes for each section:

It is best to log in to your session as root rather than to do a "su" from your user session.

This way you have direct access to commands in the /sbin directory (such as lilo).

2.1 Source

I used the following sources:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.20.tar.bz2

ftp://ftp.rtlinux.at/pub/rtlinux/rtlinux-3.2-pre2.tar.bz2

2.2 Extracting -- No comments

2.3 Patching -- No comments

2.4 Kernel Configuration

I downloaded the howto directory from:

http://www.opentech.at/howtos/multiboot-howto/download/howto-1.2.3.tar.gz

Then in the configuration menu, I read the file located at:

howto-1.2.3/configs/linux-2.4.20-rtl3.2-pre2/my_config

The only change I made then was to the Processor Type and Features entry to select

the correct processor type for my machine.

2.5 Kernel Installation -- No comments