🚀 go-pugleaf

James D. Richardson Jr. (jimrich@scott.net) wrote:
: I have been waiting and tring to start play with the linux operating
: system. I have downloaded the Linux Debain source code and read all of
: the text files. They tell me that the compiler needed is the gcc-2.3.6
: so I downloaded the file and it needs compiling also. So I read all of
: the text files on that. It says to find the djgpp dos compiler to
: fully compile it. I looked all over the net and final found a woking
: source. Now I don't know how to compile the gcc-2.3.6 because the
: installation instructions are for the unix os and not dos. Can someone
: please help me?

Do yourself a favour. Go out and buy a CDROM of Linux distributions and
install from that. At the very least abandon the thought of installing a
whole distribution from source. You certainly can, but it is doing it the
hard way. Get the files in the binary-i386 directory, they are precompiled
for Intel machines.

Terry