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 56ca3a5fa6 Added a note to the Host System Requirements that the 17 éve
appendices 9047098ea1 Typo 17 éve
bootscripts 0c051c7ab7 undo premature rename of scripts 17 éve
chapter01 56ca3a5fa6 Added a note to the Host System Requirements that the 17 éve
chapter02 293164a560 Corrected the instruction to untar the E2fsprogs tarball in Section 2.3, thanks to William Immendorf for pointing out the error 17 éve
chapter03 b95d9eca60 Typo 17 éve
chapter04 b06ca361a4 Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5 18 éve
chapter05 97ba3cf3df Removed an unnecessary command from the Chapter 5 Perl instructions 17 éve
chapter06 787fe0c794 Moved placement of m4 in chapters 5 and 6 so that 17 éve
chapter07 61e63d302c Upgrade Udev to 122, udev-config to 20080522, and lfs-bootscripts to 20080522. Replace "write_net_rules all_interfaces" with a "udevadm test" loop. Fix several typos. Remove the usb_id segfault patch, as it's included in Udev now. Add /lib/udev/devices/kmsg, as udevd uses /dev/kmsg to log a message at startup. Replace udevtrigger/udevinfo with "udevadm trigger" and "udevadm info" in the text. 17 éve
chapter08 c26ddbf2c4 Make title of fstab entry for /dev/shm consistent with kernel documentation 17 éve
chapter09 b06ca361a4 Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5 18 éve
images 192ac089b9 Import the admonition graphics from the DocBook-XSL package. 18 éve
prologue 56ca3a5fa6 Added a note to the Host System Requirements that the 17 éve
stylesheets c9af9c626f Tweak the appearance of notes in the book's html 17 éve
udev-config 649b4eeda2 typo and thinko fix 17 éve
INSTALL 0d8c5d4aa4 Fixed ambiguity in INSTALL. 20 éve
Makefile fbb442ea34 More tweaking of Makefile validate rule 17 éve
README 05e94658c6 Updated README and INSTALL. 20 éve
aux-file-data.sh 1c4800743d Moved bootscripts and udev-config to BOOK 17 éve
general.ent 0cbc6e6751 Updated the date of the SVN book 17 éve
index.xml 12bc33686f Add udev rules as an appendix 17 éve
make-aux-files.sh 1c4800743d Moved bootscripts and udev-config to BOOK 17 éve
obfuscate.sh 05d60cedcd Added a versose flag and other fixes to the Makefile. 18 éve
packages.ent 53579a53e3 Updated the book to use 4.13a as the Texinfo version, even though the tarball is exactly the same as the previous 4.13 version 17 éve
patches.ent 5394c5c6b9 Updated to E2fsprogs-1.41.2. 17 éve
process-scripts.sh abcee477f0 Change book build scripts to specify bash, not sh 17 éve
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 éve

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