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 a66ea2b59b Removed Destdir patch from list of patches to download 21 lat temu
chapter01 85bbe031aa Upgraded a lot of packages - automake, man-pages, shadow, findutils, linux, libc-headers, zlib, udev, iproute2 21 lat temu
chapter02 4f7457758a Shortened some title pages. 21 lat temu
chapter03 a66ea2b59b Removed Destdir patch from list of patches to download 21 lat temu
chapter04 1fd5d19b67 Add user lfs to group lfs (fixes bug #856) 21 lat temu
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 lat temu
chapter06 75bf9851a8 No changelog entry - forgot to remove the zlib security patch from the XML - this commit does so 21 lat temu
chapter07 366c3401ec Removed reference to sysklogd 21 lat temu
chapter08 205af120bc Made Grub's configuration location FHS compliant 21 lat temu
chapter09 9dfc02ff38 Current BE-LFS (but w/ GCC 3.3.3) merged -> 6.0 branch 21 lat temu
contrib 287ea55da7 * Merged newxml into HEAD 21 lat temu
prologue 466658dca4 Added a para about replaceable text. 21 lat temu
stylesheets 1cbea46700 Fixed the indentation of itemizedlist for XHMTL output. 21 lat temu
INSTALL a942c0a271 Use a configurable XSLROOTDIR to point to the DocBook XSL stylesheets 21 lat temu
Makefile 12043d221f Removed the TIDY variable 21 lat temu
README f067d1ded4 Corrected Makefile at suggestion of Richard Downing - make BASEDIR=/some/path instead of BASEDIR=/some/path make 21 lat temu
TODO 32cc259af0 Reverting previous change - commit now works 21 lat temu
general.ent 85bbe031aa Upgraded a lot of packages - automake, man-pages, shadow, findutils, linux, libc-headers, zlib, udev, iproute2 21 lat temu
goTidy ded6dddb89 Updated the stylesheets to their current version. 21 lat temu
index-pdf.xml 8aa0f3a03d Renamed index-print.xml to index-pdf.xml and updated the Makefile. 21 lat temu
index.xml 9dfc02ff38 Current BE-LFS (but w/ GCC 3.3.3) merged -> 6.0 branch 21 lat temu
tidy.conf ded6dddb89 Updated the stylesheets to their current version. 21 lat temu

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