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Topic: Installing "make" for Compiling the Kernel, How do you install "make"?

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Posted: Aug. 23 2007,06:03

Technically, gcc and make are separate applications... neither depend on the other.
If you want a 'make' that was in the woody era, you can just apt-get it.

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Posted: Aug. 28 2007,21:20

Thanks for your help everyone.

I went into MyDSL and added some packages and I seem to have found the ones that worked. I'm pretty sure gcc was it.

One more question:
Boothbox has a linux24 kernel file. I am assuming I need to use a 2.4 kernel source then? Then do I issue a command like "make linux24" to create the kernel?

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Posted: Aug. 29 2007,05:30

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Boothbox has a linux24 kernel file. I am assuming I need to use a 2.4 kernel source then?

Could you give a few more details about this - I guess you're speaking of a kernel patch, but maybe not.

If you search these forums on "usb AND dummy", you'll find some details that might help in patching the kernel.

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Posted: Aug. 29 2007,13:29

Thanks for the reply Juanito. I'm pretty sure it's not a kernel patch. The following files are listed in the boot/isolinux folder for Boothbox:
boot.cat - not sure what this is
boot.msg - this is the message that is displayed under the logo
isolinux.bin - not really sure what this is
isolinux.cfg - appears to be a file that has the the boot options and has the following line in it: "KERNEL linux24". This is where I got the idea the kernel file is linux24.
linux24 - Appears to be a similar thing as a "bzImage" file.
logo.16 - The logo that loads up
minirt24.gz - Not sure

I have a bzImage file, but I don't think Boothbox uses that file type. Which is why I was wondering if I can just issue a "make linux24" command?

Thanks

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Posted: Aug. 29 2007,15:28

No, you still do "make bzimage" with linux 2.4. All modern Linuxes use bzImage file type, including DSL and boothbox, linux24 is just renamed from bzImage (use "file"! They both would say similar things..)

boot.cat, isolinux.bin - booting files
minirt24.gz - gzipped initial ramdisk (does some hw configuration and searches for the KNOPPIX image)

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