==================================================================== Directions for compiling a BIOS (Optional) By default, there should be a precompiled BIOS in the 'bios' directory named 'BIOS-plex86-*'. You only need to grab some extra tools if you want to compile/develop a new BIOS. If so, here is what you should do: - You need 'bcc'. I grabbed this from the Elks project, which seems to be rooted at http://www.elks.ecs.soton.ac.uk/. I Downloaded http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday/Dev86src-0.15.1.tar.gz, which was labeled 'version 0.15.1 (710k)'. user-> tar xvfz Dev86src-0.15.1.tar.gz user-> cd linux-86 user-> make bcc user-> strip bcc/bcc-cc1 user-> cp bcc/bcc-cc1 ~/bin # you can put it anywhere you want You can delelte the tarball and the linux-86 directory now if you want. Only needed the 'bcc-cc1' phase of the compiler. - You need 'as86', and 'ld86'. On my Mandrake 7.1 system, these files where provided by the 'bin86-*' RPM package, and were pre-installed for me given my package selections. You may have them already on your distro. If not, download and install packages for your system. ====================================================================