Depends largely on your budget and what type of work you want to do.
You can go top end, say with a couple of Speedotron Black Line power supplies and 8 or 9 heads, grids, snoot, barndoors, assorted umbrellas, a nice assortment of softboxes from 24x36 to 60x60, a bunch of stands, backgrounds. That should set you back about $20K or so.
You can go bargain basement and look for something like a bunch of AC slave strobes that will screw into a standard light socket and use those. Instead of a softbox, you can just bounce the strobe off of white posterboard. You can probably get started for a few hundred $$.
In any case, buy a good flashmeter. I recommend the Minolta meters, but others seem to prefer the Sekonics. They range from $200-$500.
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