Changeset c3d7b56 for chapter04

Timestamp:

05/07/2002 03:10:58 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v4_0, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

afeca3f

Parents:

b703149

Message:

revised intro

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1869 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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chapter04/introduction.xml

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 <?dbhtml filename="introduction.html" dir="chapter03"?>
 
-<para>Below is a list of all the packages that are needed to download for 
-building the basic system. The version numbers printed correspond to versions of
-the software that is known to work and which this book is based on. 
-If you 
-experience problems which you can't solve yourself, then please download the
-version that
-is assumed in this book (in case you downloaded a newer version).</para>
+<para>Below follows a list of all the packages that you will need to
+download in order to build a basic Linux system. The listed version
+numbers correspond to versions of the software that are known to work and
+which this book is based upon.</para>
 
-<para>All the URL's below are to the ftp.linuxfromscratch.org server. We
-have a couple of FTP mirrors available from which you can download the
-files as well. The addresses of the mirror sites can be found in 
-<xref linkend="ch01-mirrors"/>.</para>
+<para>All the URL's below refer to the main LFS server. There are several
+FTP mirrors available from which you can download the files as well. The
+addresses of these can be found in <xref linkend="ch01-mirrors"/>.</para>
 
-<para>We have provided a list of official download sites of the packages below
-in <xref linkend="appendixa"/>. The LFS FTP archive only 
-contains the versions of packages that are recommended for use in this book. 
-You can check the official sites in Appendix A to determine whether a newer 
-package is available. If you do download a newer package, we would 
-appreciate hearing whether you were able to install the package using this 
-book's instructions or not.</para>
-
-<para>Please note that all files downloaded from the LFS FTP archive are files
-compressed with bzip2 instead of gz. If you don't know how to
-handle bz2 files, check out <xref linkend="ch02-install"/>.</para>
+<para>The LFS FTP archive only contains the versions of the packages that
+are used in this book. You can check the official download sites provided
+in <xref linkend="appendixa"/> to determine whether or not a newer package
+is available. If you do download a newer package, we would appreciate
+hearing whether you were able to install the package without any problems
+using this book's instructions.</para>
 
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