On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:09:00PM -0600, Yaron wrote: > Ok, I'm on debian now. It's the only dist that managed to build avifile! > But it can't build vcr yet. Anyway, my real problem is it won't build the > kernel. > > I'm trying to build 2.4.2. It actually builds ok when I go "make", but > "make bzImage" gives this; anyone know what the heck? With Debian you really should use the kernel-package tools. You'll configure the kernel, run `make-kpkg binary-arch` then install the resulting Debian packages. It makes everything really simple. > ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect > ld: cannot open binary: No such file or directory You probably have a newer version of binutils where the -o options has been changed to --o. This has been discussed and remedied on linux-kernel. Nate