Re: Compiling Kernel with debian

2000-07-19 Thread Charles Lewis
I think if they put libncurses5-dev and bzip2 (and any other missing package) as suggested dependencies for kernel-source then it would save a lot of non-gurus some time. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jens Helweg wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've just installed my first debian disrtibution (Potato 2.2) and I >

Re: Compiling Kernel with debian

2000-07-19 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:43:14 -0700, Jens Helweg wrote: >dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory As the other folx already suggested, you need the NCurses development package. But you also need package "bin86". This is used to assembler the boot sector code, IIRC. Make sure you got that

Re: Compiling Kernel with debian

2000-07-18 Thread dyer
Jens Helweg wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed my first debian disrtibution (Potato 2.2) and I > wanted to compile a new kernel but get the > following error message when I execute make menuconfig: > > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[

Re: Compiling Kernel with debian

2000-07-18 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Jens Helweg say > Hi, > > I've just installed my first debian disrtibution (Potato 2.2) and I > wanted to compile a new kernel but get the > following error message when I execute make menuconfig: > > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scr

Compiling Kernel with debian

2000-07-18 Thread Jens Helweg
Hi, I've just installed my first debian disrtibution (Potato 2.2) and I wanted to compile a new kernel but get the following error message when I execute make menuconfig: rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux