Building the Network Security Toolkit ISO from scratch is a non-trivial task. If you are not willing to read the technical documentation, it is not recommended that you try to do it (just download the precompiled binary ISO at SourceForge).
We designed the building of to be flexible. There are several things that lead to error and warning messages. Most of the warning messages you'll see are due to optional security packages which are not bundled with Fedora 11. Here are the general types of errors and warnings that one is likely to encounter:
A partial Fedora 11 installation. If you do not install all of the packages making up Fedora 11 on your system, it is possible that you will be missing something required to build the Network Security Toolkit.
Permission errors are possible if you attempt
to build the Network Security Toolkit ISO as a non root user. In order to build
the ISO image, there are many commands which need to be run and files
which need to be accessed that require root level
access. Because of this, building the NST is not for the weak of
heart. You should dedicate a separate system (or at least a separately
booted partition) before attempting this feat. NEVER attempt to build
the NST on a production system (also make sure that you don't have
any important disk partitions mounted when you
build).
Warnings for other packages are common if the
package is not part of the standard Fedora 11 installation. The
Network Security Toolkit attempts to install many security programs which are not bundled
with the Fedora 11. These warnings will not prevent the ISO from
working, it just means that the optional package will not be
available. The 'make package-check' and numerous
scripts found in the src/bin directory will help
in getting these optional packages installed on your
system.