"Brian R. Barnholtz" <bbarnholtz at qwest.net> wrote: > > I am in the process of building my own linux system. I have a bootable > linux kernel ona minimal ext2 filesystem and midnight commander. That > is all. Now I want to add software, and do not have the make command. > What software package would I need to install first, in order to run > make? I thought it might be bin86 or gcc. Any suggestions. Also I > have two kernels which I boot between. One displays the boot sequence > and the other appears to be directed to a /dev/null. I have not been > able to locate where I would change this. It must be in the kernel > itself. Well, you need make to make make, so I'd get make. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Half the people you know / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ are below average. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]