General guide to build the SFS client 2.2

Our SFS Client kernel supports:

• NFS Root
• Torque batch system
• HP SATA drives

Procedures:

• Follow the official installation Client Installation and User Guide (link)

• Apply the smaller corrections to the guide described below
• Create a directory where you would like to build the client
• Enter to that directory
• Download the installation scripts to this directory and unpack it (link)
• Create a directory called sources and copy the sources located on the client CD to this directory
• Modify the make.client scripts initial options section
• Set the MAKE_USER to yes and execute the make.client script (which creates a new user to be used for the complete build process)
• Set the MAKE_USER to no and set ALL_OVER to yes
• Execute the make.client script and hope for the best (the build time usually take 3-4 hours)

• Already built files (link)

• Patches
  • NFS root patch (patch)
  • HP SATA support  (patch)
  • VFS intent patch (patch)
  • Export patch (patch)
  • Kernel config (file)
  • Kernel specfile for RPM (specfile)

Smaller corrections to the installation guide (Appendix C)

• C.2.4 

        export PATH="$CLIENT_ROOT/tools/bin:"${PATH}

• C.2.5:    If your versions of the autoconf and automake utilities are not as specified in Section 3.2.1, rebuild the appropriate versions under the tools/ directory, as follows:

        cp /mnt/cdrom/client_enabler/src/common/autotools/auto*.tar.gz tools/
        cd tools/
        tar -xzpf autoconf-2.59.tar.gz
        cd autoconf-2.59
        ./configure --prefix=/build/SFS_client_build/tools
        make
        make install
        cd ../
        tar -xzpf automake-1.7.9.tar.gz
        cd automake-1.7.9
        ./configure --prefix=/build/SFS_client_build/tools
        make
        make install
        cd ../../

• C.2.6

       %_topdir /build/SFS_client_build/output
       export HOME=/build/SFS_client_build/output

• C.2.18

                 tar -xzpf hpls-diags-client.tar.gz