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/

Krejzi f41fa812d6 Minor text fixes. 11 years ago
appendices 811dc7cc6f Minor additions and cleanups to dependencies.xml. 11 years ago
bootscripts 75128f91c3 Remove redundant wording when checking toolchain values. 11 years ago
chapter01 a64abe8667 Fixed changelog entries. 11 years ago
chapter02 a8871e37cb Fix BLFS links (remove double forward slash) from creatingpartition.xml. 11 years ago
chapter03 190ba456de Revert udev-lfs removal. I wasn't aware that it was still used, sorry. 11 years ago
chapter04 3aee2ac264 Update to eudev-1.10 11 years ago
chapter05 5948c80372 Remove redundant options in gcc instructions. 11 years ago
chapter06 f41fa812d6 Minor text fixes. 11 years ago
chapter07 0bf4dfe63c Move sed to be after acl. 11 years ago
chapter08 6c558c4080 More fixes for BLFS links. 11 years ago
chapter09 74a92182dc Reference /etc/lsb-release in index. 11 years ago
images 192ac089b9 Import the admonition graphics from the DocBook-XSL package. 18 years ago
prologue 4f2d19e5f9 Minor text changes 11 years ago
stylesheets 28b3209b0a Added libcap-2.24 11 years ago
udev-lfs ee648fdd8c Update to linux-3.14 11 years ago
INSTALL 0d8c5d4aa4 Fixed ambiguity in INSTALL. 20 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. 16 years ago
aux-file-data.sh ba8848f4d0 Fix a few more typos and whitespaces. 11 years ago
general.ent 7da0af62d0 Incorporate bash security fix. 11 years ago
index.xml d944136079 Replaced deprecated w3.org XInclude throughout the book 15 years ago
make-aux-files.sh f896e21c3f Updated udev to version 186. This update has a major procedure 13 years ago
obfuscate.sh 05d60cedcd Added a versose flag and other fixes to the Makefile. 18 years ago
packages.ent 2ee50443d7 Update xz stats 11 years ago
patches.ent 7da0af62d0 Incorporate bash security fix. 11 years ago
pdf-fixups.sh e436213b71 Disable pdf-fixups.sh 14 years ago
process-scripts.sh b2b1e1aa5f Move directory to make build easier 13 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