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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-05-07 15:10:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-05-07 15:10:58 +0000 |
| commit | c3d7b5633c9c61261ae65b0ac5ca4d2c3a111cef (patch) | |
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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 @@ <title>Introduction</title> <?dbhtml filename="introduction.html" dir="chapter03"?> -<para>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).</para> +<para>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.</para> -<para>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 -<xref linkend="ch01-mirrors"/>.</para> +<para>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 <xref linkend="ch01-mirrors"/>.</para> -<para>We have provided a list of official download sites of the packages below -in <xref linkend="appendixa"/>. 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.</para> - -<para>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 <xref linkend="ch02-install"/>.</para> +<para>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 <xref linkend="appendixa"/> 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.</para> </sect1> |