Hallo Alex, hello all,
> On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Gerd wrote:
> > It seems that your compiler package (GCC) is not properly
> > installed. as86 is part of that package and not part of the kernel
>
> No, as86 is a 16 bit assembler used to generate the bootstrapping code,
> and comes in a seperate package to the 32 bit binutils (and is nothing to
> do with gcc at all). There should be an RPM on the RedHat CD called
> something like as86 or bin86 which contains what you need.
Of course, you are right. It was too long ago since I last installed
my gcc package. But the setup routines of the up-to-date
distributions _require_ you to install the package containing as86 if
you chose to (re)install gcc, so I didn't remember that as86 was in
some particular package and not in gcc when I wrote this mail.
These packages are IMHO always installed together if you use the
distribution's package manager. Especially on Slackware, they
also could be reinstalled manually without hassle by unpacking the
*.tar.gz (assuming you have downloaded the binary packages).
Cheers, and apologies for that error of mine
Gerd
