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Additional Installation Instructions
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The following example installation is for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4
compatible kernel, where the
/etc/redhat-release file indicates another
distribution. If you are a
bash or sh user, type:
# export IPATH_DISTRO=2.6.9_U4
Follow this with your normal rpm install commands, or run (as root):
# /usr/src/infinipath/drivers/make-install.sh
You can examine the list of supported distributions for this InfiniPath release by
looking at this script:
/usr/src/infinipath/drivers/build-guards.sh
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 in
/etc/redhat-release, although the kernel is Scientific
Linux 4.4:
# rpm -Uv infinipath-kernel-2.2-3187.376_rhel4_psc.x86_64.rpm
Preparing packages for installation...
infinipath-kernel-2.2-3187.376_rhel4_psc
*** 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp Scientific Linux SL release 4.3
(Beryllium) is not a supported InfiniPath distribution
error: %post(infinipath-kernel-2.2-3187.376_rhel4_psc.x86_64)
scriptlet failed, exit status 1
Managing and Installing Software Using Rocks
Rocks is a distribution designed for managing clusters from the San Diego
Supercomputer center (SDSC).
NOTE:
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.