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@@ -10,6 +10,21 @@
<title>Host System Requirements</title>
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Hardware</title>
+
+ <para>The LFS editors recommend that the system CPU have at least
+ four cores and that the system have at least 8 GB of memory.
+ Older systems that do not meet these requirements will still work,
+ but the time to build packages will be significantly longer
+ than documented.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Software</title>
+
<para>Your host system should have the following software with the
minimum versions indicated. This should not be an issue for most
modern Linux distributions. Also note that many distributions will
@@ -224,5 +239,5 @@ bash library-check.sh</userinput></screen>
<para>The files identified by this script should be all present
or all absent, but not only one or two present.</para>
-->
-
+ </sect2>
</sect1>