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  1. <sect1 id="pre-whonotread">
  2. <title>Who would not want to read this book</title>
  3. <para>
  4. Users who don't want to build an entire Linux system from scratch
  5. probably don't want to read this book. If a user, however, wants to learn
  6. more about what happens behind the scenes, in particular what happens
  7. between turning on the computer and seeing the command prompt, he wants
  8. to read the <quote>From Power Up To Bash Prompt</quote> (P2B) HOWTO.
  9. This HOWTO builds a bare system, in way similar to the one this book
  10. uses, but it focusses more on just installing a bootable system instead
  11. of a complete system.
  12. </para>
  13. <para>
  14. To decide whether to read this book or the P2B HOWTO, a user could
  15. ask himself this question: "Is my main objective to get a working Linux
  16. system that I'm going to build myself and, along the way, learn what
  17. every component of a system is for, or is just the learning part my main
  18. objective?" If he wants to build and learn, he reads this book. If he just
  19. wants to learn, then the P2B HOWTO is probably better material to read.
  20. </para>
  21. <para>
  22. The <quote>From Power Up To Bash Prompt</quote> HOWTO can be downloaded
  23. from <ulink url="http://www.netspace.net.au/~gok/power2bash/">
  24. http://www.netspace.net.au/~gok/power2bash/</ulink>
  25. </para>
  26. </sect1>