[plug] Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:25:48 +0800

[McMaster]

I installed no packages except for development tools.....i get the error
message:

make: no rule to make target 'menuconfig'. Stop.

Any ideas?

Steve McMaster



-----Original Message-----
From: Bevan Broun <bevanb at ee.uwa.edu.au>
To: plug at linux.org.au <plug at linux.org.au>
Date: Wednesday, 23 June 1999 9:34
Subject: Re: [plug] Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:25:48 +0800


>on Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 09:27:55AM +0800, McMaster <steryn at wantree.com.au>
wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had an old 486sx25 with an 80meg harddrive sitting around doing
nothing,
>> so i thought id try and throw linux on it. (Redhat 4.2 (i know its out of
>> date, but its all i got on cd) ).
>>
>> Problem is when i do minimal install (ie, not install any of the
packages,
>> just the OS, i can't even access commands like make menuconfig or
anything
>> like that cause i get error messages on the make command. Any
suggestions...
>
>Do you have the "make" program? I dont know what packages you did
>install but it sounds like you want to build a kernal - youll need the
>development tools OR build your new kernal on another machine and then
>transfer it.
>
>BB
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