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/

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appendixa 1e9bcf337f Fixed SBU definition (merged from r6390) 20 years ago
appendixb a9d820cd25 Updated the acknowledgements to current trunk. 20 years ago
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chapter02 e727ee5f33 Added -v switches. 20 years ago
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chapter04 e727ee5f33 Added -v switches. 20 years ago
chapter05 400ae36936 Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step 20 years ago
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chapter07 3fe124a066 PDF fixes. 20 years ago
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prologue d03faf5e45 Ported from trunk some redaction changes in preface and chapter01 pages. 20 years ago
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INSTALL effd9c6f93 Updated Makefile and related files. 20 years ago
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index.xml 56fc942088 Moved chapter02 to part II. 20 years ago
obfuscate.sh effd9c6f93 Updated Makefile and related files. 20 years ago
patches.ent 3487416217 Fix a Glibc bug that prevents some programs from running 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 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