Re: 3c90x woes

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

"Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov> writes:
> "Raphael Crawford-Marks" <raphaelc@squaretrade.com> writes:
> > ok so I patched the kernel successfully and went through make config and
> > make dep just fine.
> > 
> > when I do make bzImage (also tried zImage, zdisk, and bzdisk) everything
> > works fine until it gets to the very end:
> > 
> > as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
> > make[1]: as86: Command not found
> > 
> > I've never heard of as86...couldn't find any packages by that name either.
> > 
> > Any further help would be much appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Raphael
> 
> You need to install the bin86 package:
> 
> apt-get install bin86

Also, you should seriously consider looking at the kernel-package
package, in particular look at the make-kpkg utility. It makes using
custom-compiled kernels in Debian MUCH easier to deal with. 

To use it you just do your "make <config|menuconfig|xconfig>" and then
just invoke make-kpkg like:

make-kpkg --revision 5:mypc.1 --bzimage kernel_image

and you'll get a kernel_image*.deb file that you can install with
dpkg. Install it, read the docs and feel free to post if you have any
questions about it. Again, it's MUCH easier to handle custom kernels
in Debian if you use it and it is the Debian Way (TM) to use and
install custom kernels.

Gary