Hi, The suggested packages (from /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz) are: ====================================================================== Before you go any further, please allow me to point out that you need to have a few other packages installed before you can compile your own kernels (it is difficult to compile anything without a compiler ;-).
Firstly, you will need gcc, the libc development package (libc5-dev at the time of writing), and, on Intel platforms, bin86. [If you use the menuconfig target of make, you will need ncursesX.X-dev, and make xconfig also requires tkX.X-dev, and other packages these depend on] The packages suggested are: devel: gcc, libc5-dev, binutils, make, and, for intel x86 platforms, bin86 (non-intel platforms don't need this). interpreters: gawk. base: gzip, shellutils, and grep. ====================================================================== I think that you are missing libc5-dev. May I also suggest that you try out the package kernel-package? It should be in the section misc, and has beeen designed to ease the task of compiling and maintaining kernels on Debian machines. manoj -- I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident. :-) --Larry Wall on s/foo/bar/eieio in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Manoj Srivastava <url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobile, Alabama USA <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .