Re: [fuse-devel] install on a very small hdd

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

> I'm pretty new at using linux so bear with me.
> 
> I'm working on a 90 meg hdd with ~56 meg free, using White Dwarf
> linux.  The development tools included with it that contain the kernel
> source tree and gcc take up something like 600 meg.  I was kind of
> hoping to use fuse to mount a remote partition across the network to
> install these to.  Unfortunately Without the tree and gcc it seems
> like I can't install fuse in the first place, kind of a catch 22. 
> Okay so I built the kernel on another comp, and therefore have the
> configured kernel source tree available, but I can't figure out what
> to do with it.  The directions say this:
> 
> :::::
>  Building the kernel module needs a configured kernel source tree
> matching the running kernel.  If you build your own kernel this is no
> problem.  On the other hand if a precompiled kernel is used, the
> kernel headers used by the FUSE build process must first be prepared. 
> There are two possibilities:
> 
>    1. A package containing the kernel headers for the kernel binary is
> available in the distribution (e.g. on Debian it's the
> kernel-headers-X.Y.Z package for kernel-image-X.Y.Z)
>    2. The kernel source must be prepared:
> 
>           * Extract the kernel source to some directory
>           * Copy the running kernel's config (usually found in
> /boot/config-X.Y.Z) to .config at the top of the source tree
>           * Run make prepare
> :::::
> 
> So I'm guessing I want to do number 2.  But after that can I just copy
> some package of kernel headers to the small machine?

Yes, you can compile a kernel on a different machine, then copy the
modules and all to your small machine and things should work fine.

Miklos