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<sect1 id="ch-partitioning-stages">
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  <title>Building LFS in Stages</title>

  <para>LFS is designed to be built in one session.  That is, the
  instructions assume that the system will not be shut down
  during the process.  That does not mean that the system has to
  be done in one sitting.  The issue is that certain procedures
  have to be re-accomplished after a reboot if resuming LFS at
  different points.</para>

  <sect2>
  <title>Chapters&nbsp;1&ndash;4</title>

    <para>These chapters are accomplished on the host system.  When
    restarting, be careful of the following:</para>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Procedures done as the
        <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user after Section
        2.4 need to have the LFS environment variable set
        <emphasis>FOR THE ROOT USER</emphasis>.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </sect2>

  <sect2>
  <title>Chapters&nbsp;5&ndash;6</title>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>The /mnt/lfs partition must be mounted.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>These two chapters <emphasis>must</emphasis> be done as user
        <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem>.
        A <command>su - lfs</command> command must be issued before any task in these
        chapters. If you don't do that, you are at risk of installing packages to the
        host, and potentially rendering it unusable.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
         <para>The procedures in <xref linkend='ch-tools-generalinstructions'/>
         are critical.  If there is any
         doubt about installing a package, ensure any previously expanded
         tarballs are removed, then re-extract the package files, and complete all
         the instructions in that section.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
  </sect2>

  <sect2>
  <title>Chapters&nbsp;7&ndash;10</title>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>You must boot the temporary system on the target machine.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>A few operations, from
        <quote>Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems</quote> to
        <quote>Setting up Environment</quote>, must be done.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>The operations in <xref linkend="ch-tools-lo"/> must be done
        before starting or continuing from
        <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/>.</para>
      </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>
  </sect2>
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