From 853f716a90ff9b59a55349980b721c6eee87c6bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: s72785 <s72785@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 23:38:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Update getting_started.rst

noob-proofing a bit
---
 docs/user/getting_started.rst | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/user/getting_started.rst b/docs/user/getting_started.rst
index 606e650cb..11d15f0a4 100644
--- a/docs/user/getting_started.rst
+++ b/docs/user/getting_started.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,18 @@
 Getting Started
 ===============
 
-To build Gluon, after checking out the repository change to the source root directory
+To build Gluon, first check out the repository:
+
+::
+
+    git clone git://github.com/freifunk-gluon gluon              # Get the gluon repo
+
+after that change to the source root directory:
+
+::
+
+    cd gluon                                                     # go to the recently created directory
+
 to  perform the following commands:
 
 ::
@@ -10,8 +21,9 @@ to  perform the following commands:
     make update                                                  # Get other repositories used by Gluon
     make                                                         # Build Gluon
 
-When calling make, the OpenWRT build environment is prepared/updated. To rebuild
-the images only, just use:
+When calling make, the OpenWRT build environment is prepared/updated.
+In case of errors read the messages carefully and try to fix the stated issues (e.g. install tools not available yet).
+To rebuild the images only, just use:
 
 ::
 
-- 
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