lfs-book/chapter01/livecd.xml

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<sect1 id="prepare-livecd">
<title>About the Included CD</title>
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<para>For your convenience, we have included a CD with this book that
contains the source packages needed for creating a Linux From Scratch
system.  The CD is bootable and provides a stable working environment
for building LFS.  This book refers to this system as the
<quote>host system.</quote>  The CD images are actively maintained and
updated versions can be found at
<ulink url="ftp://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/pub/lfs-livecd/"/></para>

<para>In addition to the tools required to build LFS, the host system
on the CD has a number of other helpful tools installed:</para>

<itemizedlist>
	<listitem><para>An HTML version of this book</para></listitem>
	<listitem><para>The X Window System Environment</para></listitem>
	<listitem>
		<para>Web Tools</para>
		<itemizedlist>
			<listitem><para>Wget (command line file retriever)</para></listitem>
			<listitem><para>Lynx (text web browser)</para></listitem>
			<listitem><para>Irssi (console IRC client)</para></listitem>
			<listitem><para>Firefox (graphical web browser)</para></listitem>
			<listitem><para>Xchat (X-based IRC client)</para></listitem>
		</itemizedlist>
	</listitem>

	<listitem>
		<para>Text Editors</para>
		<itemizedlist>
			<listitem><para>Vim</para></listitem>
			<listitem><para>Nano</para></listitem>
		</itemizedlist>
	</listitem>

	<listitem>
		<para>Network Tools</para>
		<itemizedlist>
		<listitem><para>SSH Server and Client</para></listitem>
		<listitem><para>NFS Server and Client</para></listitem>
		<listitem><para>Smbmount (mount.cifs) for Windows shares</para></listitem>
		<listitem><para>Subversion</para></listitem>
		<listitem><para>Dhcpcd (DHCP client)</para></listitem>
	</itemizedlist>
	</listitem>

	<listitem>
		<para>Filesystem Programs</para>
		<itemizedlist>
			<listitem><para>Reiserfsprogs</para></listitem>
			<listitem><para>Xfsprogs</para></listitem>
		</itemizedlist>
	</listitem>

	<listitem><para>nALFS - A tool for automating LFS builds</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

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