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+# Building and installing SCST
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+If the following packages have not yet been installed, install these now:
+
+    bzip2
+    gcc
+    kernel-devel or kernel-default-devel
+    kernel-modules-extra (only on Fedora)
+    libelf-dev, libelf-devel or elfutils-libelf-devel
+    libperl-dev or perl-devel
+    make
+    perl
+    perl-Data-Dumper
+    perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker (not needed on Debian systems)
+    rpm-build (only on RPM-based systems)
+    tar
+
+## Building SCST
+
+The next step is to build and install SCST. How to do that depends on whether
+or not your Linux distribution supports a package manager:
+
+    make release
+    if rpm -q glibc >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        rm -rf {,scstadmin/}rpmbuilddir
+        make rpm
+        sudo rpm -U $PWD/{,scstadmin/}rpmbuilddir/RPMS/*/*.rpm
+    elif dpkg-query -s libc-bin >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        sudo apt install build-essential debhelper devscripts gcc make lintian quilt
+        sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) || sudo apt install pve-headers-$(uname -r) 
+        make dpkg
+        sudo dpkg -i $PWD/dpkg/{scst,iscsi-scst,scstadmin}_*.deb
+    else
+        make 2release
+        BUILD_2X_MODULE=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA_FC=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX_TARGET=y make all
+        sudo BUILD_2X_MODULE=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA_FC=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX_TARGET=y make -C "$PWD" install
+    fi
+
+Since the above step installs several kernel modules into directory
+/lib/modules/$(uname -r), that step has to be repeated every time a new kernel
+or a kernel update has been installed. If you want to avoid this, install the
+scst-dkms package instead of the scst package. That will cause SCST to be
+rebuilt and installed every time a kernel version is booted for which the SCST
+kernel modules had not yet been built.
+
+## Configuring SCST
+
+The easiest way to configure SCST is to create a configuration file
+/etc/scst.conf and by using scstadmin to load that configuration file. The
+/etc/init.d/scst script uses scstadmin to load the /etc/scst.conf file. The
+following information is present in /etc/scst.conf:
+
+* Which local storage has to be exported by SCST, e.g. a file, block device or
+  SCSI device.
+* Through which storage adapter ports SCST allows access to the local
+  storage.
+* Which initiator systems are allowed to log in.
+
+For more information about scst.conf, see also
+scstadmin/scstadmin.sysfs/man5/scst.conf.5.
+
+Loading the SCST kernel modules and applying the /etc/scst.conf configuration
+file is possible as follows:
+
+    /etc/init.d/scst restart
+
+After SCST has been loaded, configuration changes can be applied without
+unloading and reloading the SCST kernel modules:
+
+    scstadmin -config /etc/scst.conf
+
+After the SCST configuration has been changed via scstadmin or by modifying the
+SCST sysfs attributes, the new configuration can be saved e.g. as follows:
+
+    scstadmin -write_config /etc/scst.conf.new
+
+More information about the device handler and target driver sysfs attributes
+can be found in the scst/README document. More detailed instructions about
+iSCSI, QLogic FC, SRP and FCoE configuration can be found in the following
+documents:
+
+* iscsi-scst/README
+* qla2x00t/doc/qla2x00t-howto.html
+* srpt/README
+* fcst/README