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/

Archaic 68b786c273 Several minor wording changes in chapters 8 and 9 (matt). Also removed the paragraph about compressing kernel modules. (merged from trunk r6340) 20 years ago
appendixa 68bcfc7d7c Rendering Acronymlist as table. 20 years ago
appendixb aabd480689 Brought all occurences of LFS-Bootscripts into conformity. (merged from trunk r6288) 20 years ago
chapter01 68b786c273 Several minor wording changes in chapters 8 and 9 (matt). Also removed the paragraph about compressing kernel modules. (merged from trunk r6340) 20 years ago
chapter02 8f1042af10 Merging of various wording changes from r6215-r6217 20 years ago
chapter03 82fd24a40e Standardized capitalization of GRUB. (merged from trunk r6339) 20 years ago
chapter04 782446b659 Merged wording changes from trunk (r6232, r6233, r6248). 20 years ago
chapter05 9ff62fda2e Merged wording changes from trunk (r6251). 20 years ago
chapter06 82fd24a40e Standardized capitalization of GRUB. (merged from trunk r6339) 20 years ago
chapter07 b8a3fb2dcd Reprise of r6318. (merged from trunk r6334) 20 years ago
chapter08 68b786c273 Several minor wording changes in chapters 8 and 9 (matt). Also removed the paragraph about compressing kernel modules. (merged from trunk r6340) 20 years ago
chapter09 68b786c273 Several minor wording changes in chapters 8 and 9 (matt). Also removed the paragraph about compressing kernel modules. (merged from trunk r6340) 20 years ago
prologue 782446b659 Merged wording changes from trunk (r6232, r6233, r6248). 20 years ago
stylesheets 4bddca7cf4 Fixed headers line height. Ported from trunk r6018 20 years ago
FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS bf647e74d8 Added fomer contributors file 20 years ago
INSTALL 82d3941c5a * Update INSTALL instructions (Randy McMurchy) 20 years ago
Makefile 1eb75cf60f Activated the pdf Makefile target for testing and stable releases. 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 b568bbaff1 Several minor wording changes in chapter 8. (merge from trunk r6318) 20 years ago
index.xml 17700191e9 Upgraded to DocBook 4.4 DTD 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