<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Install the packages</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="TimeSys Linux Install HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Requirements" HREF="requirements.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Prepare the source directories" HREF="prepare_source_directories.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >TimeSys Linux Install HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="requirements.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="prepare_source_directories.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="install_packages" ></A >3. Install the packages</H1 ><P > Your first task is to install Red Hat Linux 9 on the desktop computer that will be running TimeSys Linux. If you already have a computer with RHL9 on it (or even just a boot partition that has it), you can skip this step, but a clean installation is always best. Be sure to choose the <EM >Workstation</EM > installation option so that all of the development packages get installed. </P ><P >Next, make sure that the <TT CLASS="filename" >kernel-source</TT > package is installed. You can do this by typing:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > <TT CLASS="prompt" ># </TT ><TT CLASS="userinput" ><B ><B CLASS="command" >rpm</B > -q kernel-source</B ></TT > </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >If it's not installed, retrieve it by whatever means you prefer, such as downloading the binary RPM from Red Hat's <A HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/" TARGET="_top" >FTP site</A >, then install it with:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><FONT COLOR="#000000" ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > <TT CLASS="prompt" ># </TT ><TT CLASS="userinput" ><B ><B CLASS="command" >rpm</B > -Uvh kernel-source-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm</B ></TT > </PRE ></FONT ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P > Copy the TimeSys Linux distribution archive to the computer running RHL9 and extract it. Switch to the <TT CLASS="filename" >TimeSys-x86bsp</TT > directory that was created and run <B CLASS="command" >./install</B > as root. This will put all of the TimeSys Linux files into <TT CLASS="filename" >/opt/timesys</TT >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="requirements.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="prepare_source_directories.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Requirements</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Prepare the source directories</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >