From 73aedd1d35747ff2fad4ddf514dca810721a612a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Gronenwoud Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 22:31:50 +0000 Subject: Merging caption and installation sections for all packages in chapters 5 and 6. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3052 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/nettools.xml | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'chapter06/nettools.xml') 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; &aa-nettools-shortdesc; &aa-nettools-dep; -&c6-nettools-inst; + +   + + +Installation of Net-tools + +If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during the +make config 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. + +First fix a small syntax problem in the sources of the mii-tool +program: + +patch -Np1 -i ../&net-tools-mii-patch; + +Now prepare Net-tools for compilation with: + +make config + +If you intend to accept the default settings, you may skip the +questions generated by make config by running +yes "" | make config instead. + +Compile the package: + +make + +And install it: + +make update + + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf