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. Copykaio-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. Runmake config and answer yes when questioned about AIO support. The default value
of4096 should be sufficient for the number of system-wide AIO requests. At this time, you
shouldalso configure the kernel to support your disk or tape devices. If tape device access
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.conffile, and run/sbin/lilo.
% cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-kaio
% vi /etc/lilo.conf
% /sbin/lilo
10. Ifyou need to rebuild the HPSS Mover, make a link from /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 theTest 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.