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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
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Subject: Re: make does nothing building kernel 
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On Tue, 04 Jan 2000 08:50:55 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> Unfortunately, that's the same (effectively) as what I was doing:
> 
> > > 	make depend && \
> > > 	make && \
> > > 	make install
> 
> I still get:
> 
> > >       You must first build your kernel before trying to install.
> > >       *** Error code 1

Aha!

I've found it.  I was missing the all important "config" line:

	config	kernel on wd0

So much for "this kernel config was working before", huh?  Dunno how or
why this line was removed, but I'm more than willing to accept that I
did it myself. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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