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/

Jeremy Utley 7a90c005d9 Forgot the changelog entry for the previous commit 21 years ago
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chapter02 4f7457758a Shortened some title pages. 21 years ago
chapter03 b457a1d5d0 Added the util-linux patch back, because upstream goofed up on the fix 21 years ago
chapter04 1fd5d19b67 Add user lfs to group lfs (fixes bug #856) 21 years ago
chapter05 6135b95e08 Experimental - don't build udev in chapter 5, instead create a minimal device enviornment at the beginning of chapter 6, and run udevstart after udev is installed in chapter 6. 21 years ago
chapter06 6135b95e08 Experimental - don't build udev in chapter 5, instead create a minimal device enviornment at the beginning of chapter 6, and run udevstart after udev is installed in chapter 6. 21 years ago
chapter07 366c3401ec Removed reference to sysklogd 21 years ago
chapter08 205af120bc Made Grub's configuration location FHS compliant 21 years ago
chapter09 9dfc02ff38 Current BE-LFS (but w/ GCC 3.3.3) merged -> 6.0 branch 21 years ago
contrib 287ea55da7 * Merged newxml into HEAD 21 years ago
prologue 466658dca4 Added a para about replaceable text. 21 years ago
stylesheets 1cbea46700 Fixed the indentation of itemizedlist for XHMTL output. 21 years ago
INSTALL a942c0a271 Use a configurable XSLROOTDIR to point to the DocBook XSL stylesheets 21 years ago
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README f067d1ded4 Corrected Makefile at suggestion of Richard Downing - make BASEDIR=/some/path instead of BASEDIR=/some/path make 21 years ago
TODO 32cc259af0 Reverting previous change - commit now works 21 years ago
general.ent b457a1d5d0 Added the util-linux patch back, because upstream goofed up on the fix 21 years ago
goTidy ded6dddb89 Updated the stylesheets to their current version. 21 years ago
index-pdf.xml 8aa0f3a03d Renamed index-print.xml to index-pdf.xml and updated the Makefile. 21 years ago
index.xml 9dfc02ff38 Current BE-LFS (but w/ GCC 3.3.3) merged -> 6.0 branch 21 years ago
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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