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/

Manuel Canales Esparcia a7a02386b4 Revised a fixed whatsnew.xml 18 years ago
appendices 9058aa1ecb Updated Ncurses contents list and fixes some typos. 18 years ago
chapter01 a7a02386b4 Revised a fixed whatsnew.xml 18 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 9627f8bb89 Upgrade to Sysklogd-1.5. Fixes #2055. Thanks to Matthew Burgess for the patch. 18 years ago
chapter04 b06ca361a4 Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5 18 years ago
chapter05 2a7ac34a07 Upgrade to Glibc-2.6.1. Fixes #2018. Thanks to several people mentioned in the changelog. 18 years ago
chapter06 9058aa1ecb Updated Ncurses contents list and fixes some typos. 18 years ago
chapter07 e7477591dd Added sect1info blocks to packages pages. 18 years ago
chapter08 e7477591dd Added sect1info blocks to 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 20d4c8a7d0 Upgrade to Binutils-2.18. Fixes #2069. Thanks to Matt Burgess for the patch. 18 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 9058aa1ecb Updated Ncurses contents list and fixes some typos. 18 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 9627f8bb89 Upgrade to Sysklogd-1.5. Fixes #2055. Thanks to Matthew Burgess for the patch. 18 years ago
patches.ent fc02f2718a Add latest upstream patches for Vim. Thanks to Matthew Burgess for the patch. 18 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