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 6e79b0d871 Upgrade to Tcl-8.4.17. Fixes #2131. 17 years ago
appendices f70fb9ff45 More updates in dependencies list. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. 18 years ago
chapter01 6e79b0d871 Upgrade to Tcl-8.4.17. Fixes #2131. 17 years ago
chapter02 ea148539cb Rewording so that a colon can be comfortably added to lead in to a command, to help people using screen readers. 18 years ago
chapter03 93ee74805c Updated to Texinfo-4.11. Fixes #2074. 17 years ago
chapter04 b06ca361a4 Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5 18 years ago
chapter05 93ee74805c Updated to Texinfo-4.11. Fixes #2074. 17 years ago
chapter06 d327d74c87 Add a few more details to the package management section, and correct the URL for the LSB specs. Fixes #2073 and #2130. 17 years ago
chapter07 4d84ed51cd Fix typo 17 years ago
chapter08 0445a3d506 Added remap attributes to userinput tags in packages pages. 18 years ago
chapter09 b06ca361a4 Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5 18 years ago
images 192ac089b9 Import the admonition graphics from the DocBook-XSL package. 18 years ago
prologue 9692a57692 Add Perl to the list of host requirements as Glibc needs it. Fixes #2112. 17 years ago
stylesheets c1fe047a4d Merged r8368 from new-xsl branch. 18 years ago
INSTALL 0d8c5d4aa4 Fixed ambiguity in INSTALL. 20 years ago
Makefile 7d39455701 Make formatting tweaks 18 years ago
README 05e94658c6 Updated README and INSTALL. 20 years ago
general.ent ed41d75748 Upgrade to Linux-2.6.23.14. Fixes #2128. 17 years ago
index.xml b06ca361a4 Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5 18 years ago
obfuscate.sh 05d60cedcd Added a versose flag and other fixes to the Makefile. 18 years ago
packages.ent 6e79b0d871 Upgrade to Tcl-8.4.17. Fixes #2131. 17 years ago
patches.ent 9750afcb58 Upgrade to latest upstream fixes for Vim. 17 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