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/

Archaic fbcd9f7a75 Fixed SBU definition. (merged from trunk r6388) 20 years ago
appendixa fbcd9f7a75 Fixed SBU definition. (merged from trunk r6388) 20 years ago
appendixb d58f95eb4d Bring acknowledgements up to date 20 years ago
chapter01 49eaebc267 Removed reference to the wiki. Pointed to the FAQ instead. (merged from trunk r6386) 20 years ago
chapter02 374283348f Brought (hopefully) all references of man/info pages into conformity. Updated typography to reflect this. (merged from trunk r6376) 20 years ago
chapter03 a9982466b5 Update gcc package size and add a note regarding shadow's tarballs going AWOL (merged from r6377) 20 years ago
chapter04 374283348f Brought (hopefully) all references of man/info pages into conformity. Updated typography to reflect this. (merged from trunk r6376) 20 years ago
chapter05 49eaebc267 Removed reference to the wiki. Pointed to the FAQ instead. (merged from trunk r6386) 20 years ago
chapter06 374283348f Brought (hopefully) all references of man/info pages into conformity. Updated typography to reflect this. (merged from trunk r6376) 20 years ago
chapter07 374283348f Brought (hopefully) all references of man/info pages into conformity. Updated typography to reflect this. (merged from trunk r6376) 20 years ago
chapter08 374283348f Brought (hopefully) all references of man/info pages into conformity. Updated typography to reflect this. (merged from trunk r6376) 20 years ago
chapter09 68b786c273 Several minor wording changes in chapters 8 and 9 (matt). Also removed the paragraph about compressing kernel modules. (merged from trunk r6340) 20 years ago
prologue 4158ffc296 Reworded errata page. (merged from trunk r6382) 20 years ago
stylesheets 6c40608862 Remove admonition graphics from nochunked output (merged from r6352) 20 years ago
FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS bf647e74d8 Added fomer contributors file 20 years ago
INSTALL 82d3941c5a * Update INSTALL instructions (Randy McMurchy) 20 years ago
Makefile 6c40608862 Remove admonition graphics from nochunked output (merged from r6352) 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
general.ent 49eaebc267 Removed reference to the wiki. Pointed to the FAQ instead. (merged from trunk r6386) 20 years ago
index.xml 17700191e9 Upgraded to DocBook 4.4 DTD 20 years ago
tidy.conf 9ad01770fa HTML Tidy's newline detection appears to be broken. Force LF line endings assuming people are rendering on a Linux box (merged from trunk r6347) 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 PDF:
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make pdf &&
cp lfs.pdf /path/to/output/location