That error seems to get just about everyone when compiling a kernel the first time. If you look back in the debian-user archives far enough, you'll find me asking about it.
The base system is only meant to get enough of a running system so that you can then go ahead and install the rest. It should be kept that way. Tom Ken Weingold wrote: > > The debian.org site says that bin86 "a complete 8086 assembler and > loader which can make 32-bit code for the 386+ processors (under Linux > it's used only to create the 16-bit bootsector and setup binaries)." > It is not installed in the initial Debian install. Both times I have > done new installs of 2.2r2 and gone to rebuild a new kernel (from the > source from kernel.org) the build has stopped with an error that it > can't find as86. I install the bin86 package and run make again and > it goes fine. Am I missing something else that should be there to > build the kernel or is bin86 really needed? I am wondering which > since if the second, bin86 should be installed with the base system. > > Thanks. > > -Ken > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ScopusFest >
