diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 357a15f73..6a3b7321e 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ generated by patching the original one. This patching is done here in
 chapter 5. Also, fixed the explanations on both makedev installations.
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>
+Chapter 5: Recommended to install all the software while logged in (or
+su'ed to) user root.
+</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>
 Chapter 5+6: Added the fileutils-4.0 patch which is needed to compile
 the fileutils package on Glibc-2.2 based systems (such as the upcoming
@@ -109,7 +114,7 @@ works when using the LFS scripts.
 Chapter 10: Added this chapter. It contains "thanks and good luck"
 notes and suggest creating the /etc/lfs-&version; file
 </para></listitem>
-1
+
 </itemizedlist>
 
 </sect1>
diff --git a/chapter05/chapter05.xml b/chapter05/chapter05.xml
index 74af61cef..aaa989583 100644
--- a/chapter05/chapter05.xml
+++ b/chapter05/chapter05.xml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <title>Preparing the LFS system</title>
 
 &c5-introduction;
-
+&c5-installasroot;
 &c5-bash;
 &c5-binutils;
 &c5-bzip2;
diff --git a/chapter05/installasroot.xml b/chapter05/installasroot.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0f070588d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chapter05/installasroot.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<sect1 id="ch05-installasroot">
+<title>Install all software as user root</title>
+
+<para>
+It's best if you login as root or su to root when installing these
+files. That way you are assured that all files are owned by user root,
+group root (and not owned by the userid of your non-root user) and if a
+package wants to set special permissions it can do so without problems
+due to non-root access.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If you read the documentation that comes with Glibc, Gcc and other
+packages they recommend not to compile the packages as user root. We
+feel it's safe to ignore that recommendation and compile as user root
+anyways. Hundreds of people using LFS have done so without any problems
+whatsoever and we haven't encountered any bugs in the compile processes
+that cause harm. So it's pretty safe (never can be 100% safe though, so
+it's up to you what you end up doing).
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+
diff --git a/index.xml b/index.xml
index 614e65316..87cb44b14 100644
--- a/index.xml
+++ b/index.xml
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
 
 <!ENTITY chapter5 SYSTEM "intel/chapter5/chapter5.xml">
 <!ENTITY c5-introduction SYSTEM "intel/chapter5/introduction.xml">
-
+<!ENTITY c5-installasroot SYSTEM "intel/chapter5/installasroot.xml">
 <!ENTITY c5-bash SYSTEM "intel/chapter5/bash-static.xml">
 <!ENTITY c5-bash-inst SYSTEM "intel/chapter5/bash-static-inst.xml">
 <!ENTITY c5-bash-exp SYSTEM "intel/chapter5/bash-static-exp.xml">