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/

Matthew Burgess c66cbd7898 More chapter 7 typo and markup fixes (merged from trunk r6026 20 lat temu
appendixa 68bcfc7d7c Rendering Acronymlist as table. 20 lat temu
appendixb c864f29061 Updated the lfs-es mirror URL. 20 lat temu
chapter01 c66cbd7898 More chapter 7 typo and markup fixes (merged from trunk r6026 20 lat temu
chapter02 afbe6d98ba Merge r5317 and 5318 (wording and tagging corrections) to the testing branch 20 lat temu
chapter03 127b386634 * Updated to linux-2.6.11.12 20 lat temu
chapter04 b750f7c235 PDF fixes in chapter04 20 lat temu
chapter05 bf60f2a69a Reworded note about --disable-nls. (merged from trunk r5996) 20 lat temu
chapter06 78c0ad3277 Small tags fixes. Ported from trunk r6022 20 lat temu
chapter07 c66cbd7898 More chapter 7 typo and markup fixes (merged from trunk r6026 20 lat temu
chapter08 6a6a08a6cd PDF fixes in chapter08. Updated Changelog and book version. 20 lat temu
chapter09 81fd230419 Trunk is now identical to Testing 20 lat temu
prologue e7e97e84db Merged r4316 from trunk: Minor wording improvements. 20 lat temu
stylesheets 4bddca7cf4 Fixed headers line height. Ported from trunk r6018 20 lat temu
FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS bf647e74d8 Added fomer contributors file 20 lat temu
INSTALL 82d3941c5a * Update INSTALL instructions (Randy McMurchy) 20 lat temu
Makefile 1eb75cf60f Activated the pdf Makefile target for testing and stable releases. 20 lat temu
README f067d1ded4 Corrected Makefile at suggestion of Richard Downing - make BASEDIR=/some/path instead of BASEDIR=/some/path make 21 lat temu
general.ent d4f3984e42 Fixed link to BLFS's db page referenced in iproute2. (merged from trunk r6006) 20 lat temu
index.xml 17700191e9 Upgraded to DocBook 4.4 DTD 20 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