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<sect1 id="pre-organization">
<title>Structure</title>
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<para>This book is divided into the following four parts:</para>

<sect2>
<title>Part I - Introduction</title>

<para>Part I explains a few important things on how to proceed with the
installation, and gives meta information about the book (version, changelog,
acknowledgments, associated mailing lists, and so on).</para>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Part II - Preparing for the build</title>

<para>Part II describes how to prepare for the building process: making a
partition, downloading the packages, and compiling temporary tools.</para>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Part III - Building the LFS system</title>

<para>Part III guides you through the building of the LFS system: compiling
and installing all the packages one by one, setting up the boot scripts, and
installing the kernel. The resulting basic Linux system is the foundation
upon which you can build other software, to extend your system in the way
you like.</para>
</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Part IV - Appendices</title>

<para>Part IV consists of two appendices. The first is an alphabetical list of
all the installed packages, and the second an alphabetical list of all the
installed programs and libraries, mentioning which package installed it.</para>
</sect2>

</sect1>