From 26a89c559c1f62b99fcdddd2ec2b130eea1d9b4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:44:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] provided some notes regarding the 'make' phase's questions git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1690 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/nettools-inst.xml | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/chapter06/nettools-inst.xml b/chapter06/nettools-inst.xml index 7fb66dde5..585fa4f05 100644 --- a/chapter06/nettools-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/nettools-inst.xml @@ -6,5 +6,23 @@ make && make update +If you want to accept all the default answers, you can run these +commands instead: + +yes "" | make && +make update + +If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during +the make 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. + +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. +