Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MW> Andrew McRobert wrote: AM> thanks to Mike. I've installed the bin86 package, run 'make AM> bzImage' & lilo again and set the system up to boot. Is the bin86 AM> package only needed for compressing the kernel image, or is it AM> needed to "make dep", "make modules" etc? MW> MW> For the most part, the bin86 package is needed to compile almost MW> any package that comes as C source code.
Uh, no. The bin86 package is needed to compile 16-bit 8086-compatible source code. This pretty much means that it's only needed to compile the kernel boot loader itself (I wouldn't be surprised if the LILO source needed it too, but people never recompile that). In particular, it's *not* needed to recompile kernel modules. Since, surprisingly, nobody's pointed it out yet, you might want to look into the Debian kernel-package package. This builds Debian packages out of kernels, making it easier to build, install, and manage them. If you want to build a kernel, cd to the top of the kernel source tree, then make menuconfig fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=whatever buildpackage fakeroot make-kpkg modules cd .. dpkg -i *.deb The first line runs the standard kernel configuration utility. The second actually builds packages of the kernel source, header files, documentation, and the kernel to be installed. The third builds whatever module source trees you have installed to build extra Debian packages out of external kernel modules. The last goes off and installs the packages (and needs to be done as root). -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
