Well lets just say she's dying on make dep. I suspect there's a package I've missed, but here's the output and any input would be apprecaited. I have to admitt with Slackware I didn't have problems cooking kernels cause all the packages were in place. This is a little tricky with Debian, but interesting. Also thanks to Gene and Frank I got through a messy install. Well wound up being less messy on the seciond go around. gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep scripts/mkdep.c scripts/mkdep.c:33: ctype.h: No such file or directory scripts/mkdep.c:34: fcntl.h: No such file or directory In file included from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/include/syslimits.h:7, from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/include/limits.h:11, from scripts/mkdep.c:35: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/include/limits.h:117: limits.h: No such file or directory scripts/mkdep.c:36: stdio.h: No such file or directory scripts/mkdep.c:37: stdlib.h: No such file or directory scripts/mkdep.c:38: string.h: No such file or directory scripts/mkdep.c:39: unistd.h: No such file or directory scripts/mkdep.c:41: sys/fcntl.h: No such file or directory scripts/mkdep.c:42: sys/mman.h: No such file or directory scripts/mkdep.c:43: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory scripts/mkdep.c:44: sys/types.h: No such file or directory make: *** [scripts/mkdep] Error 1 tnx