2. Requirements

In order to use Yard, you need:

• A Linux kernel that includes the compressed ramdisk option (1.3.48 or greater). Version 2.0 has been out for a long time now, so it's unusual to be running a kernel older than this. Type "uname -r" to see your kernel version.
• The following features must be built-in to the kernel used on the rescue disk:
  • Ramdisk support
  • Ext2fs (second extended filesystem) support
  • Floppy disk support
  These cannot be provided as modules. The kernel needs to have them built-in so it can load the root filesystem.
• Perl version 5 or higher. Version 4 will not work. To see what you have, type

  % perl -v
  

• If you want to strip binaries, you need objcopy 2.6 or later (type objcopy -V)
• Root access.