From 81fd230419b0cfd052b08fc1ed352bb7d49975df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 22:16:42 +0000
Subject: Trunk is now identical to Testing

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4648 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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 prologue/prerequisites.xml | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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diff --git a/prologue/prerequisites.xml b/prologue/prerequisites.xml
index b22902560..506fe4487 100644
--- a/prologue/prerequisites.xml
+++ b/prologue/prerequisites.xml
@@ -7,6 +7,31 @@
 <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>
+
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