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                 The Packages</ulink> section in the Yocto Project Quick start for the exact package 
                 requirements.</para></listitem>
             <listitem><para><emphasis>Yocto Project Release:</emphasis>  You need a release of the Yocto Project.  
-                You can get set up for this one of two ways depending on whether you are going to be contributing 
-                back into the Yocto Project source repository or not.
+                You can get set up with local Yocto Project files one of two ways depending on whether you 
+                are going to be contributing back into the Yocto Project source repository or not.
                 <itemizedlist>
                     <listitem><para><emphasis>Tarball Extraction:</emphasis>  If you are not going to contribute 
                         back into the Yocto Project you can simply download the Yocto Project release you want 
                         from the website’s <ulink url='http://yoctoproject.org/download'>download page</ulink>.
-                        Once you have the tarball, just extract it into a directory of your choice.
-                        This method does not produce a <filename>poky</filename> Git repository. 
-                        You end up simply with a snapshot of Yocto Project files that are based on the 
-                        particular release in the tarball.  
-                        If you are interested in supported Board Support Packages (BSPs) you can also download 
-                        these release tarballs from the same site and locate them in a directory of your 
-                        choice.</para></listitem>
+                        Once you have the tarball, just extract it into a directory of your choice.</para>
+
+                        <para>For example, the following command extracts the Yocto Project 1.1 release tarball 
+                            into the current working directory and sets up a file structure whose top-level 
+                            directory is named <filename>poky-1.1</filename>:
+                            <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+     $ tar xfj poky-1.1.tar.bz2
+                            </literallayout></para>
+
+                        <para>This method does not produce a <filename>poky</filename> Git repository. 
+                            You end up simply with a local snapshot of Yocto Project files that are based on the 
+                            particular release in the tarball.</para></listitem>
                     <listitem><para><emphasis>Git Repository Method:</emphasis>  If you are going to be contributing
                         back into the Yocto Project you should probably use Git commands to set up a local 
-                        <filename>poky</filename> Git repository of from the Yocto Project.  
+                        <filename>poky</filename> Git repository of the Yocto Project.  
                         Doing so creates a Git repository with a complete history of changes and allows 
-                        you to easily submit your changes upstream to the project.  
-                        For an example of how to set up your own local Git repositories see this
+                        you to easily submit your changes upstream to the project.</para>
+ 
+                       <para>The following transcript shows how to clone the <filename>poky</filename> 
+                       Git repository into the current working directory.  
+                       The command creates the repository in a directory named <filename>poky</filename>:
+                       <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+     $ git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky
+     Initialized empty Git repository in /home/scottrif/poky/.git/
+     remote: Counting objects: 107624, done.
+     remote: Compressing objects: 100% (37128/37128), done.
+     remote: Total 107624 (delta 73393), reused 99851 (delta 67287)
+     Receiving objects: 100% (107624/107624), 69.74 MiB | 483 KiB/s, done.
+     Resolving deltas: 100% (73393/73393), done.
+                       </literallayout></para>
+
+                       <para>For another example of how to set up your own local Git repositories see this
                         <ulink url='https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Transcript:_from_git_checkout_to_meta-intel_BSP'>
                         wiki page</ulink>, which describes how to create both <filename>poky</filename>
                         and <filename>meta-intel</filename> Git repositories.</para></listitem>