Re: [Sheflug] Hi

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> First, on my Mandrake box I,ve been trying to compile a new kernel using the
> rtlinux-2.2a-prepatched kernel which other people have got working OK.
> However, on my machine I don't seem to be able to get it to go right through
> to making the bzImage. I've attached a screen shot of the last few messages
> with the errors I get after 'make bzImage' has run its course. Any ideas
> why? Perhaps I have missed installing some auxiliary piece of software but I
> can't figure out what and it seems to be looking for an 'as86' command and a
> 'bootsect.o' file which I can't find.

As a quick guide -- instead of a screen dump - just cutting & pasting the 
bumf into a mail message would be nicer and quicker and prevent multi-minute 
mail downloads.

But to the question - do you have binutils installed? From what I recall as86 
is part of the binutils package...its fair to say you may not have installed 
it :) as86 is (as the name suggests) and assembler for x86.

> Second, since I last reloaded Mandrake, I can't get my Windoze box to see it
> on the network - it works fine the other way round and I can suck stuff
> across using Samba but 'network neighbourhood' on the win box just doesn't
> see the linux one. I'm sure I've only missed something very obvious and
> fundamental but I just don't seem to be able to work out what. Can you help
> please?

Network neighbourhood is unreliable...especially across subnets. I don't use 
it. The best way to get to your computer is go to the Start -> Run box and 
type "\\computername" where computername is the name of your computer. 
Circumvents any problems with that.

Chris...


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