Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with step-by-step instructions for building your own customized Linux system entirely from source. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/

Bruce Dubbs 2f0d64dc59 Fixes to bootscripts: 13 years ago
appendices 6b13ebc66a Remove oblolete references to consolelog 13 years ago
bootscripts 2f0d64dc59 Fixes to bootscripts: 13 years ago
chapter01 2f0d64dc59 Fixes to bootscripts: 13 years ago
chapter02 3acac1e6bf Fix typo 13 years ago
chapter03 f70b664df1 Upgrade to Udev-178 and add its dependency of Kmod-4. Fixes #2998 and #3001. 13 years ago
chapter04 a3b3b6fa1f Minor wording change 14 years ago
chapter05 3380af3607 Clarify (again) the extraction order in GCC Pass 1 13 years ago
chapter06 6b13ebc66a Remove oblolete references to consolelog 13 years ago
chapter07 2f0d64dc59 Fixes to bootscripts: 13 years ago
chapter08 e9ba8aa85f Change bootscripts to use devtmpfs for /dev. 13 years ago
chapter09 54d3ed5dbf Change to simple glibc version check in version-check.sh. 13 years ago
images 192ac089b9 Import the admonition graphics from the DocBook-XSL package. 18 years ago
lsb-bootscripts 6b13ebc66a Remove oblolete references to consolelog 13 years ago
prologue 54d3ed5dbf Change to simple glibc version check in version-check.sh. 13 years ago
stylesheets a7f0b27405 Fix a pdf rendering issue 14 years ago
udev-config 0e038d1b86 Don't try to install documentation that was removed in udev-config-20090126. 15 years ago
INSTALL 0d8c5d4aa4 Fixed ambiguity in INSTALL. 20 years ago
Makefile 5fde2f94c3 Minor clarification in Makefile 13 years ago
README 2dc4a09ed1 Forcing an update to test RSS fixes. 16 years ago
aux-file-data.sh f56f0428d3 Date type and remove some tab characters 16 years ago
general.ent 841b7235aa Change the recipe for wrapper kernel module dependencies to use the explicit soft-dependency support added to kmod. While I'm here, rewrite a bunch of the chapter-7 udev processing documentation, now that we use devtmpfs. 13 years ago
index.xml d944136079 Replaced deprecated w3.org XInclude throughout the book 15 years ago
make-aux-files.sh 43c2ecf0b8 Update to lfs-bootscripts-20110531. 14 years ago
obfuscate.sh 05d60cedcd Added a versose flag and other fixes to the Makefile. 18 years ago
packages.ent 2f0d64dc59 Fixes to bootscripts: 13 years ago
patches.ent 02213b996c Upgrade to Coreutils-8.15. Fixes #2996. 13 years ago
pdf-fixups.sh e436213b71 Disable pdf-fixups.sh 14 years ago
process-scripts.sh 6c3ab2e4b6 Show sysconfig/udev_retry in Appendix D 13 years ago
tidy.conf 58f10f85ed HTML Tidy's newline detection appears to be broken. Force LF line endings assuming people are rendering on a Linux box 20 years ago

README

LFS Book README

This document is meant to instruct the user on how to convert the book's XML
source to other formats (e.g. HTML, PDF, PS and TXT). First, if you have not
already done so, please read the INSTALL file for instructions on how to install
the required software. If you have already completed the steps outlined in the
INSTALL file, then continue reading for examples how to convert these files into
various other formats.

XML to XHTML:
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make BASEDIR=/path/to/output/location


XML to single file XHTML (nochunks):
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make BASEDIR=/path/to/output/location nochunks


XML to TXT
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Follow the instructions for nochunks and then run:
lynx -dump /path/to/nochunks >/path/to/output


XML to PDF:
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make BASEDIR=/path/to/output/location pdf