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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-12-11 02:00:18 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-12-11 02:00:18 +0000
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-<sect1 id="ch03-introduction">
+<sect1 id="ch04-introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
-<?dbhtml filename="introduction.html" dir="chapter03"?>
+<?dbhtml filename="introduction.html" dir="chapter04"?>
<para>Below is a list of packages you need to download for building a
basic Linux system. The listed version numbers correspond to versions
-of the software that are known to work, and this book is based
-upon them.</para>
+of the software that are known to work, and this book is based upon
+them. Feel free to try out newer versions, but if you experience problems
+with those versions, please try the recommended version first before
+sending bug reports.</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>All the URL's, when possible, refer to the project's page at
+<ulink url="http://www.freshmeat.net">Freshmeat.net</ulink>. The Freshmeat
+pages will give you easy access to the official download sites as well as
+project websites, mailinglists, FAQ's, Changelogs and more.</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>
+<para>For your convenience the top of the list contains a link to a file
+you can use with the <ulink url="http://wget.sunsite.dk">wget</ulink>
+program. Using this file and the <userinput>wget</userinput> program will
+make it easy to download all the files at once, rather than downloading each
+and every individual file manually.</para>
</sect1>