Prerequisites

Before installing FUSD, make sure you have all of the following packages installed and working correctly:

• Linux kernel 2.4.0 or later. FUSD was developed under 2.4.0 and should work with any kernel in the 2.4 series.

• devfs installed and running. FUSD dynamically registers devices using devfs, the Linux device filesystem by Richard Gooch. For FUSD to work, devfs must be installed and running on your system. For more information about devfs installation, see the devfs home page.

  Note that some distributions make installation devfs easier. RedHat 7.1, for example, already has all of the necessary daemons and configuration changes integrated. devfs can be installed simply by recompiling the kernel with devfs support enabled and reconfiguring LILO to pass "devfs=mount" to the kernel.