Re: as86?

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

  Marcus Hightower writes:
  Marcus>  Does anybody know where I can find this as86 thing.

See the Debian FAQ (from the doc-debian package, or the ftp site)

  7.4.  How can I find out what package produced a particular file?

  To identify the package that produced the file named foo execute
  either:

  o  dpkg -S filename.

     This searches through the lists of installed files.  This is
     (currently) equivalent to searching all of the files having the
     file extension of .list in the directory /var/lib/dpkg/info/.

  o  grep foo Contents, or zgrep foo Contents.gz.

     This searches for files which contain the substring foo in their
     full path names.  The files Contents and Contents.gz reside in the
     major package directories (Debian-1.1, non-free, contrib, etc.)  at
     a Debian FTP site. A Contents file refers only to the packages in
     the subdirectory tree where it resides.  Therefore, a user might
     have to search more than one Contents files to find the package
     containing the file foo.                                     

Hence:
	miles:~ [root] # zgrep as86 /mirror/debian/rex/Contents.gz
	usr/bin/as86                                                 bin86
so you have to install the bin86 package.

  Marcus>   Also does the zimage automaticly gets installed when you do a
  Marcus> make zimage or does it just makes it without installation.

Use the kernel-package from the rex/binary-all/misc directory. It will build
a .deb file with your kernel and install it all for you (you need to read
some doc, though).

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd