Re: building make, without make (?)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Jamiil,

* jamiil wrote on Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 04:13:48PM CET:
> Now that I am trying to install Debian from a CD, I found that the
> network  card was not supported,  I read that some dude had found a
> driver for the NIC in a MSI-M662 laptot, I myself don't know what kind
> of NIC is in this machine, I am going by what the dude claims.
> However, after downloading the alleged driver, I had to compile it,
> for that I need to have 'make', but this machine does not have the
> make program, after downloading it from the GNU' FTP site, I found out
> that I also have to build this program using 'make'.
> As you can see I am in a vicious circle, can anyone help me get out of
> it.

You should be able to just install the Debian 'make' binary package from
the CD.

Cheers,
Ralf