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/

Jeremy Utley fcbc3481c5 Fixed shadow - thanks David Jensen and Robert Connolly 20 years ago
chapter01 fcbc3481c5 Fixed shadow - thanks David Jensen and Robert Connolly 20 years ago
chapter02 4f7457758a Shortened some title pages. 21 years ago
chapter03 b8dd5d4eeb * Upgrade to findutils-4.2.10 20 years ago
chapter04 1fd5d19b67 Add user lfs to group lfs (fixes bug #856) 21 years ago
chapter05 060e2e14b6 I thought I fixed this - guess not - binutils patch command got split between 2 lines - merged it back 20 years ago
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 9dfc02ff38 Current BE-LFS (but w/ GCC 3.3.3) merged -> 6.0 branch 21 years ago
contrib 287ea55da7 * Merged newxml into HEAD 21 years ago
prologue 955d5e3759 Fixed a validation issue. 20 years ago
stylesheets 266a7bd267 * (INSTALL) Document how to install the latest known good version of the 20 years ago
INSTALL b8e37b35aa BLFS now handles installing ANT 20 years ago
Makefile 12043d221f Removed the TIDY variable 21 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
goTidy ded6dddb89 Updated the stylesheets to their current version. 21 years ago
index-pdf.xml 8aa0f3a03d Renamed index-print.xml to index-pdf.xml and updated the Makefile. 21 years ago
index.xml 9dfc02ff38 Current BE-LFS (but w/ GCC 3.3.3) merged -> 6.0 branch 21 years ago
tidy.conf ded6dddb89 Updated the stylesheets to their current version. 21 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