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1# Copyright 2000, International Business Machines Corporation and others.
2# All Rights Reserved.
3#
4# This software has been released under the terms of the IBM Public
5# License. For details, see the LICENSE file in the top-level source
6# directory or online at http://www.openafs.org/dl/license10.html
7
8# installkernel
9#
10# An InstallGuide for installing static kernels
11#
12
13sub installernel {
14&Print("Take a kernel that has been statically built and installs it");
15&Print("in place so that it will be used after the next reboot. This");
16&Print("is intended only for use on those machines that enable");
17&Print("building AFS into the kernel instead of dynamically loading.");
18&Print("A hard link is made between the new kernel and a copy of it");
19&Print("with the AFS revision appended to the filename. If the");
20&Print("previous kernel did NOT have AFS built into it, that vendor");
21&Print("kernel is moved aside with \".orig\" appended to the filename.");
22}