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 77e97aea54 Updated bootscripts, udev config, and sbu locations 19 years ago
appendices a92b3e7bdc Move to ext3, resolves #1792. 19 years ago
chapter01 77e97aea54 Updated bootscripts, udev config, and sbu locations 19 years ago
chapter02 bb009c9bef Fix a typo in chapter 2 19 years ago
chapter03 35f2607355 Correct Vim's installation of man pages to work well with Man-DB. 19 years ago
chapter04 77e97aea54 Updated bootscripts, udev config, and sbu locations 19 years ago
chapter05 9b41802b14 Moved text in section 5.7 'Adjusting the Toolchain' referencing TCL out of the caution and into its own note 19 years ago
chapter06 a263c7ad8c Updated to udev-096 and udev-config-20060712. Closes #1804. 19 years ago
chapter07 c800f787e9 Added clarifying text to section 7.9 concerning charmap specifications. 19 years ago
chapter08 e4a5635494 Replaced "<" by "less than". 19 years ago
chapter09 13a9dc2d62 Indented chapter01 except changelog.xml. 19 years ago
prologue a12d50787f Fix a couple of typos in the prologue 19 years ago
stylesheets 037ab68b10 Moved packages.xml info to packages.ent. 19 years ago
INSTALL 0d8c5d4aa4 Fixed ambiguity in INSTALL. 20 years ago
Makefile 2fe5051af7 Updated to Vim-7.0. Fixes #1793. 19 years ago
README 05e94658c6 Updated README and INSTALL. 20 years ago
general.ent cd2f7f0340 Provide vi to vim man page symlinks for all languages. Closes #1811. 19 years ago
index.xml abe30076b3 Placed all appendices into a common dir. 19 years ago
obfuscate.sh fbb5e45367 Added obfuscate.sh to test it in production mode. 20 years ago
packages.ent 77e97aea54 Updated bootscripts, udev config, and sbu locations 19 years ago
patches.ent d157482ab0 Upgrade to Coreutils 5.96 19 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