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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+<sect1 id="ch-system-createfiles">
+<title>Creating essential symlinks</title>
+<?dbhtml filename="createfiles.html"?>
+
+<para>Some programs hard-wire paths to programs which don't exist yet. In
+order to satisfy these programs, we create a number of symbolic links which
+will be replaced by real files throughout the course of this chapter when
+we're installing all the software.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>ln -s /tools/bin/{bash,cat,pwd,stty} /bin
+ln -s /tools/bin/perl /usr/bin
+ln -s /tools/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib
+ln -s bash /bin/sh</userinput></screen>
+
+</sect1>