Re: EMC Kit

EMC Kitters,

The CD-ROM I use now has the Red Hat distribution RPMS and boot floppy
images, plus the pristine source RPMs that overwrite Red Hat's so the
real time patch doesn't barf, plus the real-time patch, plus the EMC.
Installing is still the same painful procedure, but it's all on one CD.
This is not much of an improvement.

I have thought about setting up a fully-configured EMC/RT Linux CD-ROM
to make my life easier. I'd like to set it up so that you boot off the
Red Hat boot floppy, select what packages you want, and it installs a
patched real-time Linux and the precompiled EMC code. Unfortunately the
installation files are all RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) formats, and I
can't patch these directly. I'd need to build RPMs from a patched
kernel, and replace the original kernel headers, sources, and binaries
with the ones I built. I don't know how to build RPMs, but there's a
book that Matt pointed me to that describes this. As far as I know, all
that needs to be done is to rebuild linux-headers-2.0.36-0.7.i386.rpm,
linux-source-2.0.36-0.7.i386.rpm, and linux-2.0.36-0.7.i386.rpm from a
kernel that has been pre-patched and compiled with the real-time stuff,
and replace i386/RedHat/RPMS/... with these.

--Fred