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diff --git a/chapter06/nettools.xml b/chapter06/nettools.xml index 417bd502d..61a6359d6 100644 --- a/chapter06/nettools.xml +++ b/chapter06/nettools.xml @@ -7,7 +7,44 @@ Estimated required disk space: &net-tools-compsize;</screen> &aa-nettools-shortdesc; &aa-nettools-dep; -&c6-nettools-inst; + +<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> + +<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 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>First fix a small syntax problem in the sources of the mii-tool +program:</para> + +<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&net-tools-mii-patch;</userinput></screen> + +<para>Now prepare Net-tools for compilation with:</para> + +<screen><userinput>make config</userinput></screen> + +<para>If you intend to accept the default settings, you may skip the +questions generated by <emphasis>make config</emphasis> by running +<userinput>yes "" | make config</userinput> instead.</para> + +<para>Compile the package:</para> + +<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen> + +<para>And install it:</para> + +<screen><userinput>make update</userinput></screen> + +</sect2> </sect1> |