From c3d7b5633c9c61261ae65b0ac5ca4d2c3a111cef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 15:10:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] revised intro git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1869 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter04/introduction.xml | 35 +++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapter04/introduction.xml b/chapter04/introduction.xml index eb232598c..094b00c74 100644 --- a/chapter04/introduction.xml +++ b/chapter04/introduction.xml @@ -2,30 +2,21 @@ Introduction -Below is a list of all the packages that are needed to download for -building the basic system. The version numbers printed correspond to versions of -the software that is known to work and which this book is based on. -If you -experience problems which you can't solve yourself, then please download the -version that -is assumed in this book (in case you downloaded a newer version). +Below follows a list of all the packages that you will need to +download in order to build a basic Linux system. The listed version +numbers correspond to versions of the software that are known to work and +which this book is based upon. -All the URL's below are to the ftp.linuxfromscratch.org server. We -have a couple of FTP mirrors available from which you can download the -files as well. The addresses of the mirror sites can be found in -. +All the URL's below refer to the main LFS server. There are several +FTP mirrors available from which you can download the files as well. The +addresses of these can be found in . -We have provided a list of official download sites of the packages below -in . The LFS FTP archive only -contains the versions of packages that are recommended for use in this book. -You can check the official sites in Appendix A to determine whether a newer -package is available. If you do download a newer package, we would -appreciate hearing whether you were able to install the package using this -book's instructions or not. - -Please note that all files downloaded from the LFS FTP archive are files -compressed with bzip2 instead of gz. If you don't know how to -handle bz2 files, check out . +The LFS FTP archive only contains the versions of the packages that +are used in this book. You can check the official download sites provided +in to determine whether or not a newer package +is available. If you do download a newer package, we would appreciate +hearing whether you were able to install the package without any problems +using this book's instructions.