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diff --git a/chapter02/download.xml b/chapter02/download.xml index 8579666e1..b6386b1ba 100644 --- a/chapter02/download.xml +++ b/chapter02/download.xml @@ -2,28 +2,29 @@ <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. +Throughout this document I will assume that all the +packages that were downloaded are placed 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 +Under sources I have 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 +$LFS/usr/src/sources/b/ and so forth. This convention does not have to be +followed 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, +The next chapter contains the list of all the packages that need to be +downloaded, 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). +Therefore, the files are temporarily stored somewhere else and later +copied to $LFS/usr/src/ when the chapter in which +the new partition is prepared got finished. </para> </sect1> |