Re: bin86

2001-01-17 Thread Tom Pfeifer
t. 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)." >

Re: bin86

2001-01-16 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:35:47PM -0500, 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).&quo

bin86

2001-01-16 Thread Ken Weingold
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

Re: bin86 missing (was Re: compiling new kernel)

2000-03-09 Thread muggles
be the case and build a new kernel is often the first thing i do after each install ( unless i have a custom kernel deb at hand ) it would be nice if there was a conditional depends that selected bin86 whenever a kernel source package was selected for install and the arch = iX86 since it is basi

RE: bin86 missing (was Re: compiling new kernel)

2000-03-08 Thread Bryan Scaringe
First thing I did after my install was remove all unused packages that didn't cause dselect to have kittens. bin86 was one of them. found that out quick enough. The second thing I tried to do after install was recompile he kernel. Bryan > I can't understand how so many people

bin86 missing (was Re: compiling new kernel)

2000-03-08 Thread David Wright
t; make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 > make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot' > make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 > > and doesn't create the bzImage file > > > why? It looks as if you don't have the as86 command. This is a fai