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diff --git a/chapter02/download.sgml b/chapter02/download.sgml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c939473f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/chapter02/download.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +<sect1 id="ch02-download"> +<title>How to download the software</title> + +<para> +Throughout this document I will assume that you have stored all the +packages you have downloaded somewhere in $LFS/usr/src. +</para> + +<para> +I use the convention of having a $LFS/usr/src/sources directory. +Under sources you'll find the directory 0-9 and the directories a +through z. A package as sysvinit-2.78.tar.gz is stored under +$LFS/usr/src/sources/s/ A package as bash-2.04.tar.gz is stored under +$LFS/usr/src/sources/b/ and so forth. You don't have to follow this +convention of course, I was just giving an example. It's better to keep +the packages out of $LFS/usr/src and move them to a subdirectory, so +we'll have a clean $LFS/usr/src directory in which we will unpack the +packages and work with them. +</para> + +<para> +The next chapter contains the list of all the packages you need to download, +but the partition that is going to contain our LFS system isn't created yet. +Therefore store the files temporarily somewhere where you want and remember +to copy them to $LFS/usr/src/ when you have finished the chapter in which +you prepare a new partition (chapter 4). +</para> + +</sect1> + |