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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-03-09 22:44:47 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-03-09 22:44:47 +0000
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provided some notes regarding the 'make' phase's questions
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<para><screen><userinput>make &amp;&amp;
make update</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>If you want to accept all the default answers, you can run these
+commands instead:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>yes "" | make &amp;&amp;
+make update</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during
+the <userinput>make</userinput> phase, then just accept the defaults, which
+will be just in fine in the majority of the cases. What you are asked here
+are a bunch of questions relating to the kind of network protocols that you
+have enabled in your kernel.</para>
+
+<para>The default answers will enable the tools from this package to work
+with the most common protocols such as TCP, PPP and a bunch of others. You
+still need to actually enable these protocols in the kernel. What you do
+here is merely telling the programs to be able to use those protocols but
+it's up to the kernel to make it available to the system.</para>
+
</sect2>