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<H2><A NAME="s2">2. Requirements</A></H2>
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<P>In order to use Yard, you need:
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<LI>A Linux kernel 2.0 or greater.
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<LI>The following features must be <EM>built-in</EM> to the kernel used
on the rescue disk:
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<LI>Ramdisk support</LI>
<LI>Ext2fs (second extended filesystem) support</LI>
<LI>Floppy disk support</LI>
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These <EM>cannot</EM> be provided as modules. The kernel needs to
have them built-in so it can load the root filesystem.
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<LI>Perl version 5 or higher. Version 4 will not work. To see what
you have, type
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perl -v
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.
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<LI>If you want to strip binaries, you need objcopy 2.6 or later
(type <CODE>objcopy -V</CODE>)
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<LI>Root access. All of these scripts must be run as root.
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