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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 you, however, do want to learn
  6. more about what happens behind the scenes, in particular what happens
  7. between turning on your computer and seeing the command prompt, you want
  8. to read the <quote>From Power Up To Bash Prompt</quote> (P2B) HOWTO.
  9. This HOWTO builds a bare system, in a similar way as this book does, but it
  10. focusses more on just installing a bootable system instead of a complete
  11. system.
  12. </para>
  13. <para>
  14. To decide whether you want to read this book or the P2B HOWTO, you could
  15. ask yourself 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 and
  17. learn what every component of a system is for, or is just the learning
  18. part your main objective. If you want to build and learn, read this
  19. book. If you just want to learn, then the P2B HOWTO is probably better
  20. material to read.
  21. </para>
  22. <para>
  23. The <quote>From Power Up To Bash Prompt</quote> HOWTO can be downloaded
  24. from <ulink url="http://www.netspace.net.au/~gok/power2bash/">
  25. http://www.netspace.net.au/~gok/power2bash/</ulink>
  26. </para>
  27. </sect1>