"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.

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