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+<sect1 id="ch03-introduction">
+<title>Introduction</title>
+
+<para>
+Below is a list of all the packages you need 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, download the version that
+is assumed in this book (in case you downloaded a newer version).
+</para>
+
+<para>
+If the packages.linuxfromscratch.org server isn't allowing connections
+anymore try one of our mirror sites. The addresses of the mirror sites
+can be found in <ulink url="ch01-version.html">Chapter 1 - Book
+Version</ulink>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+We have provided a list of official download sites of the packages below
+in <ulink url="appendixc.html">Appendix C - Official download locations
+</ulink>. The LFS FTP archive only contains the versions of packages
+that are recommended for use in this book. If you're looking
+for newer versions than the ones listed here you can have a look in
+Appendix C.
+</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, please read <ulink url="ch02-install.html">Chapter 2 - How to install
+the software</ulink>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The list below is current as of January 5th, 2001
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+