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diff --git a/chapter03/introduction.xml b/chapter03/introduction.xml index e67e62497..7a7626d92 100644 --- a/chapter03/introduction.xml +++ b/chapter03/introduction.xml @@ -49,9 +49,28 @@ <screen role="nodump"><userinput>chmod -v a+wt $LFS/sources</userinput></screen> - <para>An easy way to download all of the packages and patches is by using - <ulink url="../wget-list">wget-list</ulink> as an input to - <command>wget</command>. For example:</para> + <para>There are several ways to optain all the necessary packages and patches + to build LFS:</para> + + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>The files can be downloaded individually as described in the + next two sections.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>For stable versions of the book, a tarball of all the needed files + can be downloaded from one of the LFS files mirrors listed at + <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/mirrors.html#files"/>.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>The files can be downloaded using <command>wget</command> and + a wget-list as described below.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + + <para>To download all of the packages and patches by using + <ulink url="../wget-list">wget-list</ulink> as an input to the + <command>wget</command> command, use:</para> <screen role="nodump"><userinput>wget --input-file=wget-list --continue --directory-prefix=$LFS/sources</userinput></screen> @@ -61,7 +80,10 @@ <filename class="directory">$LFS/sources</filename> and run:</para> <screen role="nodump"><userinput>pushd $LFS/sources -md5sum -c md5sums + md5sum -c md5sums popd</userinput></screen> + <para>This check can be used after retrieving the needed files with any of the + methods listed above.</para> + </sect1> |