5 – Software Installation Additional Installation Instructions
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Using the override may not result in a buildable or working driver if your distribution/kernel combination is not similar enough to a tested and supported distribution/kernel pair.
The following example installation is for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4 compatible kernel, where
#export IPATH_DISTRO=2.6.9_U4
Follow this with your normal rpm install commands, or run (as root):
#
You can examine the list of supported distributions for this InfiniPath release by looking at this script:
This is the current list of strings that can be passed to IPATH_DISTRO. The distributions to which each string is applied are shown in brackets:
2.6.22_FC6 [Fedora Core 6, 2.6.22 kernel]
2.6.18_EL5 [RHEL5, Scientific Linux 5.0, CentOS 5.0] 2.6.18_EL5.1 [RHEL5.1, Scientific Linux 5.1, CentOS 5.1] 2.6.16_sles10 [SLES10 GM]
2.6.16_sles10_sp1 [SLES10 SP1]
2.6.9_U4 [RHEL4 U4, CentOS 4.4, Scientific Linux 4.4] 2.6.9_U5 [RHEL4 U5, CentOS 4.5, Scientific Linux 4.5] 2.6.9_U6 [RHEL4 U6, CentOS 4.6, Scientific Linux 4.6]
If you try to install on an unsupported distribution or an unsupported distribution/kernel pair, you will see an error message. This example shows a case where 4.3 is still
#rpm
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Managing and Installing Software Using Rocks
Rocks is a distribution designed for managing clusters from the San Diego Supercomputer center (SDSC).
