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/

Matthew Burgess 3ca39786bb Re-add the Inetutils kernel headers patch 20 years ago
appendixa 68bcfc7d7c Rendering Acronymlist as table. 20 years ago
appendixb fde4f7de29 Brought all occurences of LFS-Bootscripts into conformity. 20 years ago
chapter01 4b59d593cf Several minor wording changes in chapters 8 and 9 (matt). Also removed the paragraph about compressing kernel modules. 20 years ago
chapter02 663ecfcc5f Several minor wording changes (chapters 1 - 5). 20 years ago
chapter03 3ca39786bb Re-add the Inetutils kernel headers patch 20 years ago
chapter04 663ecfcc5f Several minor wording changes (chapters 1 - 5). 20 years ago
chapter05 7efa3be047 More minor wording tweaks (matt). 20 years ago
chapter06 4122675955 Standardized capitalization of GRUB. 20 years ago
chapter07 ffd471a5fb Reprise of r6318. 20 years ago
chapter08 4b59d593cf Several minor wording changes in chapters 8 and 9 (matt). Also removed the paragraph about compressing kernel modules. 20 years ago
chapter09 4b59d593cf Several minor wording changes in chapters 8 and 9 (matt). Also removed the paragraph about compressing kernel modules. 20 years ago
prologue 663ecfcc5f Several minor wording changes (chapters 1 - 5). 20 years ago
stylesheets 915fa5096c Fixed headers line height. 20 years ago
FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS bf647e74d8 Added fomer contributors file 20 years ago
INSTALL 82d3941c5a * Update INSTALL instructions (Randy McMurchy) 20 years ago
Makefile edb984249e Removed personal Makefile exit. 20 years ago
README f067d1ded4 Corrected Makefile at suggestion of Richard Downing - make BASEDIR=/some/path instead of BASEDIR=/some/path make 21 years ago
general.ent faca37e6ec Several minor wording changes in chapter 8 (matt). 20 years ago
index.xml 17700191e9 Upgraded to DocBook 4.4 DTD 20 years ago
patches.ent d45df00723 Changed the inetutils patch instructions to use a patch entity 20 years ago
tidy.conf ded6dddb89 Updated the stylesheets to their current version. 21 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 PDF:
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make pdf &&
cp lfs.pdf /path/to/output/location