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 faf3398093 Unstable use docbook-xsl-1.67.2. 20 years ago
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chapter01 86ca6e777e Updated gcc testresults link to be appropriate for gcc 3.4.3 20 years ago
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chapter06 fcbc3481c5 Fixed shadow - thanks David Jensen and Robert Connolly 20 years ago
chapter07 f23c8b9847 Minor entity changes to make the XML more in sync. Patch courtesy of Boris Buegling (NeoCool on IRC) 20 years ago
chapter08 205af120bc Made Grub's configuration location FHS compliant 21 years ago
chapter09 ae79672711 More text dropped. 20 years ago
prologue e431af6961 Text dropped in prologue. 20 years ago
stylesheets faf3398093 Unstable use docbook-xsl-1.67.2. 20 years ago
INSTALL b8e37b35aa BLFS now handles installing ANT 20 years ago
Makefile f7bd105db3 Updated the stylesheets and Makefile. 20 years ago
README f067d1ded4 Corrected Makefile at suggestion of Richard Downing - make BASEDIR=/some/path instead of BASEDIR=/some/path make 21 years ago
TODO 32cc259af0 Reverting previous change - commit now works 21 years ago
general.ent fcbc3481c5 Fixed shadow - thanks David Jensen and Robert Connolly 20 years ago
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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