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[PATCH] Kdump documentation update: kexec-tools update
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Mohan Kumar suggested making kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz a link to the
latest version.  I have done this and this patch updates the documentation
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Horms authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jan 23, 2007
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2) Download the kexec-tools user-space package from the following URL:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-testing-20061214.tar.gz
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz

This is a symlink to the latest version, which at the time of writing is
20061214, the only release of kexec-tools-testing so far. As other versions
are made released, the older onese will remain available at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/

Note: Latest kexec-tools-testing git tree is available at

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3) Unpack the tarball with the tar command, as follows:

tar xvpzf kexec-tools-testing-20061214.tar.gz
tar xvpzf kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz

4) Change to the kexec-tools-1.101 directory, as follows:
4) Change to the kexec-tools directory, as follows:

cd kexec-tools-testing-20061214
cd kexec-tools-testing-VERSION

5) Configure the package, as follows:

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