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/

Chris Staub be8bda02c9 network is case-sensitive 10 years ago
appendices 96e9f0bd0a Add an instruction to the eudev install to create the initial 10 years ago
bootscripts be8bda02c9 network is case-sensitive 10 years ago
chapter01 96e9f0bd0a Add an instruction to the eudev install to create the initial 10 years ago
chapter02 a8871e37cb Fix BLFS links (remove double forward slash) from creatingpartition.xml. 10 years ago
chapter03 5d1f0157c1 Added perl patch to fix CVE-2014-4330. 10 years ago
chapter04 3aee2ac264 Update to eudev-1.10 10 years ago
chapter05 8a961f6524 Remove reference to GMT in Chapter 5 tcl page. 10 years ago
chapter06 e6f0e5e7df typo 10 years ago
chapter07 0bf4dfe63c Move sed to be after acl. 10 years ago
chapter08 6c558c4080 More fixes for BLFS links. 10 years ago
chapter09 74a92182dc Reference /etc/lsb-release in index. 10 years ago
images 192ac089b9 Import the admonition graphics from the DocBook-XSL package. 18 years ago
prologue 4f2d19e5f9 Minor text changes 10 years ago
stylesheets 28b3209b0a Added libcap-2.24 10 years ago
udev-lfs ee648fdd8c Update to linux-3.14 10 years ago
INSTALL 82d957c29a Update bash upstream patch for CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169, and 10 years ago
Makefile e679f0b4e0 Adjust link to md5sums download in nochunks output. Fixes #3427. 11 years ago
README 2dc4a09ed1 Forcing an update to test RSS fixes. 15 years ago
aux-file-data.sh ba8848f4d0 Fix a few more typos and whitespaces. 11 years ago
general.ent 96e9f0bd0a Add an instruction to the eudev install to create the initial 10 years ago
index.xml d944136079 Replaced deprecated w3.org XInclude throughout the book 14 years ago
make-aux-files.sh f896e21c3f Updated udev to version 186. This update has a major procedure 12 years ago
obfuscate.sh 05d60cedcd Added a versose flag and other fixes to the Makefile. 17 years ago
packages.ent 96e9f0bd0a Add an instruction to the eudev install to create the initial 10 years ago
patches.ent 32446dc7c2 Add hopefully last fixes for shell shock bug. 10 years ago
pdf-fixups.sh e436213b71 Disable pdf-fixups.sh 13 years ago
process-scripts.sh b2b1e1aa5f Move directory to make build easier 12 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 19 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:
-------------
make BASEDIR=/path/to/output/location


XML to single file XHTML (nochunks):
------------------------------------
make BASEDIR=/path/to/output/location nochunks


XML to TXT
----------
Follow the instructions for nochunks and then run:
lynx -dump /path/to/nochunks >/path/to/output


XML to PDF:
-----------
make BASEDIR=/path/to/output/location pdf