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  <title>Introduction</title>

  <para>In this chapter, the host tools needed for building LFS
  are checked and, if necessary, installed.  Then a partition which will 
  host the LFS system is prepared. We will create the partition 
  itself, create a file system on it, and mount it.</para>

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