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/

Bruce Dubbs aca9c1fb98 Tagging 6.2-pre3 19 years ago
appendices a92b3e7bdc Move to ext3, resolves #1792. 19 years ago
chapter01 487d471b13 Added notes that udev does not recognize a backslash for line continuation. 19 years ago
chapter02 bb009c9bef Fix a typo in chapter 2 19 years ago
chapter03 ddd16a3f1d Added inotify patch to the libc headers 19 years ago
chapter04 77e97aea54 Updated bootscripts, udev config, and sbu locations 19 years ago
chapter05 e6a5a463cc Trailing spaces clean-up. 19 years ago
chapter06 5f91d6ef18 Expanded the note in vim to better explain spell files 19 years ago
chapter07 487d471b13 Added notes that udev does not recognize a backslash for line continuation. 19 years ago
chapter08 76f695dc8b Splitted some commands to fit into PDF page size. 19 years ago
chapter09 13a9dc2d62 Indented chapter01 except changelog.xml. 19 years ago
prologue a12d50787f Fix a couple of typos in the prologue 19 years ago
stylesheets 8035189ca6 Updated XSL PDF code to match current packages and patches pages tagging. 19 years ago
INSTALL 0d8c5d4aa4 Fixed ambiguity in INSTALL. 20 years ago
Makefile d22b61dd31 Activated the pdf Makefile target for final releases. 19 years ago
README 05e94658c6 Updated README and INSTALL. 20 years ago
general.ent 5f91d6ef18 Expanded the note in vim to better explain spell files 19 years ago
index.xml abe30076b3 Placed all appendices into a common dir. 19 years ago
obfuscate.sh fbb5e45367 Added obfuscate.sh to test it in production mode. 20 years ago
packages.ent d9658350c2 Update bootscripts and udev names to -pre2 19 years ago
patches.ent 28f99a6709 Fix md5sum for inotify patch 19 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