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 <title>Prerequisites</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="prerequisites.html"?>
 
-<para>See testing</para>
+<para>This book assumes that the reader has a reasonable knowledge of using
+and installing Linux software. Before building an LFS system, we
+recommend reading the following HOWTOs:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para remap="verbatim">Software-Building-HOWTO
+<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO.html"/></para>
+
+<para>This is a comprehensive guide to building and installing
+<quote>generic</quote> Unix software distributions under Linux.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para remap="verbatim">The Linux Users' Guide
+<ulink url="http://espc22.murdoch.edu.au/~stewart/guide/guide.html"/></para>
+
+<para>This guide covers the usage of assorted Linux software.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para remap="verbatim">The Essential Pre-Reading Hint
+<ulink url="&hints-root;essential_prereading.txt"/></para>
+
+<para>This is an LFS Hint written specifically for users new to Linux.
+It includes a list of links to excellent sources of information on a
+wide range of topics. Anyone attempting to install LFS should have an
+understanding of many of the topics in this hint.</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
 
 </sect1>
+