Thanks for the suggestions I'm sure I'll get it compiled now. Strangely I had everything required before, I think apt-get autoremove may have screwed this up, it listed a bunch of stuff I didn't recognize, and removed it. Figured if I didn't know what it was it would be better to go with defaults. I did try installing the 32bit version of Hardy first but there was some apic problem where it wouldn't boot without a noapic option, then I read multicore cpus communicate internally with apic and I've also got 4 gigs of physical memory. Figured I would need 64bit to maximize my hardware even though it is overkill for a linux desktop. In any event I think I was just confused having already done it, and needing to do it again now.
