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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+<sect1 id="prepare-livecd">
+<title>About the Included CD</title>
+<?dbhtml filename="livecd.html"?>
+
+<para>For your convenience, we have included a CD with this book that
+contains the source packages needed for creating a Linux From Scratch
+system. The CD is bootable and provides a stable working environment
+for building LFS. This book refers to this system as the
+<quote>host system.</quote> The CD images are actively maintained and
+updated versions can be found at
+<ulink url="ftp://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/pub/lfs-livecd/"/></para>
+
+<para>In addition to the tools required to build LFS, the host system
+on the CD has a number of other helpful tools installed:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>An HTML version of this book</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>The X Window System Environment</para></listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Web Tools</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Wget (command line file retriever)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Lynx (text web browser)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Irssi (console IRC client)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Firefox (graphical web browser)</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Xchat (X-based IRC client)</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Text Editors</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Vim</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Nano</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Network Tools</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>SSH Server and Client</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>NFS Server and Client</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Smbmount (mount.cifs) for Windows shares</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Subversion</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Dhcpcd (DHCP client)</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Filesystem Programs</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Reiserfsprogs</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Xfsprogs</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>nALFS - A tool for automating LFS builds</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</sect1>
+