Re: Can't find stuff to configure and recompile Kernel.
Robert F. Antoniewicz writes:
>I installed Debian again (last time was a year and a half ago) after
>finally figuring out how to get the machine to recognize the soundblaster
>scsi interface (I installed the packages from the Infomagic Linux
>developer's resource - March 95). But when I go to reconfigure the Kernel
>and recompile it, I cannot find the makefile in /usr/src/linux to do 'make
>config'. I tried the command anyway, and it said it could not find the
>rules to make config.
Sounds like you either don't have the kernel source installed at all,
or it's broken in some way. You want to reinstall, possibly even
download a new copy from the ftp site.
>WHen I installed, I used dpkg-deb -i *.deb is this my faux pas??? Or
>is the kernel configurer and compiler someplace else in debian???
Use dpkg, not dpkg-deb.
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