Re: bin86

[Tom Pfeifer <tplists@optonline.net>]

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
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