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authorAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-08-29 23:20:23 +0000
committerAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-08-29 23:20:23 +0000
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@@ -3,19 +3,17 @@
<sect2>
<title>Installation of Net-tools</title>
-<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 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 them available to the system.</para>
-
-<para>Configure the Net-tools package:</para>
+<para>If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during the
+<userinput>make config</userinput> phase below, then just accept the defaults.
+This will be just fine in the majority of cases. What you're asked here is a
+bunch of questions about which network protocols you've enabled in your
+kernel. The default answers will enable the tools from this package to work
+with the most common protocols: TCP, PPP, and several others. You still need
+to actually enable these protocols in the kernel -- what you do here is merely
+telling the package to include support for those protocols in its programs,
+but it's up to the kernel to make the protocols available.</para>
+
+<para>Prepare Net-tools for compilation with:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>make config</userinput></screen></para>
@@ -27,7 +25,7 @@ questions generated by <emphasis>make config</emphasis> by running
<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
-<para>Finish installing the package:</para>
+<para>And install it:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>make update</userinput></screen></para>