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/

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appendixa 1e9bcf337f Fixed SBU definition (merged from r6390) 20 years ago
appendixb 875141e0da Fixing beginpage tags. Fisrt round. 20 years ago
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chapter02 2d655672fa Typos and wording improvements (Chris Staub, sash and Kim McCall) 20 years ago
chapter03 8f192d8dbc binutils and glibc patches, space/time updates 20 years ago
chapter04 374283348f Brought (hopefully) all references of man/info pages into conformity. Updated typography to reflect this. (merged from trunk r6376) 20 years ago
chapter05 8f192d8dbc binutils and glibc patches, space/time updates 20 years ago
chapter06 8f192d8dbc binutils and glibc patches, space/time updates 20 years ago
chapter07 2d655672fa Typos and wording improvements (Chris Staub, sash and Kim McCall) 20 years ago
chapter08 d3174181b3 Rewrote the NOTE section on kernel page. (merged from trunk r6470 and r6471) 20 years ago
chapter09 c8f694ba08 Add information concerning tracking security issues and new package versions (Steve Crosby). Merged from r6461 and r6462. 20 years ago
prologue 2d655672fa Typos and wording improvements (Chris Staub, sash and Kim McCall) 20 years ago
stylesheets 41410773df Updated patcheslist.xsl to create a proper environment. (merged from trunk r6444) 20 years ago
FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS bf647e74d8 Added fomer contributors file 20 years ago
INSTALL 82d3941c5a * Update INSTALL instructions (Randy McMurchy) 20 years ago
Makefile 6c40608862 Remove admonition graphics from nochunked output (merged from r6352) 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 370935f379 Started the addition of patches.ent. 20 years ago
index.xml 17700191e9 Upgraded to DocBook 4.4 DTD 20 years ago
patches.ent 8f192d8dbc binutils and glibc patches, space/time updates 20 years ago
tidy.conf 9ad01770fa HTML Tidy's newline detection appears to be broken. Force LF line endings assuming people are rendering on a Linux box (merged from trunk r6347) 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 PDF:
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make pdf &&
cp lfs.pdf /path/to/output/location