On booting i get the following error:

ifconfig: command not found
hostname: command not found
route: command not found


'ifconfig' and 'route' along with the other tools in net-tools have not made it into LFS.

So on trying to re-install net-tools i get the following error message when i run 'make':

make: *** [hostname.o] Error 1

How can i correct this?

1) for net tools, try looking in BLFS (www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs)

2) The error message you give isn't very informative. What does it say before the error message? (compilation errors, warnings, etc)

The error message in full:

cc -Lib -o ifconfig ifconfig.0 -lnet-tools
cc -D_GNU_SOURCE -02 0Wall -g -I. -idirafter ./include/ -Ilib -c -o hostname.o hostname.c
hostname.c:47:24 netdnet/dn.h: No such file or directory
hostname.c: In function 'setname':
hostname.c:72: warning: implicit declaration of function 'setnodename'
hostname.c:81: warning:deprecated use of label at end of compound statement
hostname.c:82: warning: implicit devlaration of function 'exit
hostname.c: In function 'sethname':
hostname.c:101: warning: deprecated use of label at end of compound statement
hostname.c: In function 'setdname':
hostname.c:120: warning: deprecated use of label at end of compound statement
hostname.c: In function 'showhname':
hostname.c:177: warning: deprecated use of label at end of compound statement
hostname.c: In function 'main:
hostname.c:389: warning: implicit declaration of function 'getnodename'
make: *** [hostname.0] Error 1

Try installing the patches on the BLFS net-tools page. There is one there that specifically fixes a problem relating to netdnet/dn.h.

Quick answer is not to build in decnet support. Do you REALLY need decnet support?

Thanks. I decided not to build in decnet support.