On Aug 17, 2012, at 7:18, Mikie <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Dear, you do realize that if you had read the page describing the host 
>> requirements first, you would not have landed in this predicament? And even 
>> so, you do realize that most of the people on the list prefer that you do a 
>> little more to help yourself first before asking for help? It's not hard to 
>> look up errors for yourself, especially if you are in some sort of gui 
>> environment. Plus, it helps you learn how to do it for yourself when we're 
>> not around to help. After all, the book was originally intended to aid in 
>> learning how a basic Linux system works. 
> It's simply been expanded.
> 
>> Elly
> 
> 
> 
> you must all realize that many of us "Beginners" are just that.
> With the first second even third attempt at LFS, we don't understand what we 
> are reading.
> 
> As far as I am now, I get the concept of packages needed and I know how to 
> apt-get them and I do spend about 20 minutes or so googling ...
> ... but if you don't know what your googling for then the results set are 
> useless.
> 
> A lot of people who are experts at something forget what it's like to be a 
> beginner.
> 
> Now when I go back and re-read the packages needed ... it make sense.
> 
> The fact is, we beginners will continue to miss things even though they are 
> in the book.
> 
> It's not s perfect world and we all learn from mistakes.
> If we didn't make them ... we wouldn't be beginners.
> 
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