make-kpkg fails with "as86: Command not found"

[Rick Moen]

Quoting simonst@WellsFargo.COM (simonst@WellsFargo.COM):

> My 2.2.14 kernel build (on my new Potato system) fails at the end with
> error: "make[2]: as86: Command not found".
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix this?  Where can I get
> "as86" (& what is it - an assembler?).

apt-get install bin86

as86 is a real-mode assembler, required for the final stage of
/sbin/lilo, where it writes the bootable information to disk.

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