Linux From Scratch

Table of Contents

• Preface

  • Foreword
  • Audience
  • Prerequisites
  • Typography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Structure

• I. Introduction

  • 1. Introduction

    • How things are going to be done
    • Changelog
    • Resources
    • How to ask for help

  • 2. Preparing a new partition

    • Introduction
    • Creating a new partition
    • Creating a file system on the new partition
    • Mounting the new partition

• II. Preparing for the build

  • 3. The materials: packages and patches

    • Introduction
    • All the packages
    • Needed patches

  • 4. Final Preparations

    • About $LFS
    • Creating the $LFS/tools directory
    • Adding the user lfs
    • Setting up the environment
    • About SBUs
    • About the test suites

  • 5. Constructing a temporary system

    • Introduction
    • Toolchain technical notes
    • Binutils-2.14 - Pass 1
    • GCC-3.3.3 - Pass 1
    • Linux-2.4.26 headers
    • Glibc-2.3.3
    • Adjusting the toolchain
    • Tcl-8.4.6
    • Expect-5.41.0
    • DejaGnu-1.4.4
    • GCC-3.3.3 - Pass 2
    • Binutils-2.14 - Pass 2
    • Gawk-3.1.3
    • Coreutils-5.2.1
    • Bzip2-1.0.2
    • Gzip-1.3.5
    • Diffutils-2.8.1
    • Findutils-4.1.20
    • Make-3.80
    • Grep-2.5.1
    • Sed-4.0.9
    • Gettext-0.14.1
    • Ncurses-5.4
    • Patch-2.5.4
    • Tar-1.13.94
    • Texinfo-4.7
    • Bash-2.05b
    • Util-linux-2.12a
    • Perl-5.8.4
    • Stripping

• III. Building the LFS system

  • 6. Installing basic system software

    • Introduction
    • Mounting the proc and devpts file systems
    • Entering the chroot environment
    • Changing ownership
    • Creating directories
    • Creating essential symlinks
    • Creating the passwd, group and log files
    • Creating devices with Make_devices-1.2
    • Linux-2.4.26 headers
    • Man-pages-1.66
    • Glibc-2.3.3
    • Re-adjusting the toolchain
    • Binutils-2.14
    • GCC-3.3.3
    • Coreutils-5.2.1
    • Zlib-1.2.1
    • Mktemp-1.5
    • Iana-Etc-1.00
    • Findutils-4.1.20
    • Gawk-3.1.3
    • Ncurses-5.4
    • Vim-6.2
    • M4-1.4
    • Bison-1.875
    • Less-382
    • Groff-1.19
    • Sed-4.0.9
    • Flex-2.5.4a
    • Gettext-0.14.1
    • Net-tools-1.60
    • Inetutils-1.4.2
    • Perl-5.8.4
    • Texinfo-4.7
    • Autoconf-2.59
    • Automake-1.8.4
    • Bash-2.05b
    • File-4.09
    • Libtool-1.5.6
    • Bzip2-1.0.2
    • Diffutils-2.8.1
    • Ed-0.2
    • Kbd-1.12
    • E2fsprogs-1.35
    • Grep-2.5.1
    • Grub-0.94
    • Gzip-1.3.5
    • Man-1.5m2
    • Make-3.80
    • Modutils-2.4.27
    • Patch-2.5.4
    • Procinfo-18
    • Procps-3.2.1
    • Psmisc-21.4
    • Shadow-4.0.4.1
    • Sysklogd-1.4.1
    • Sysvinit-2.85
    • Tar-1.13.94
    • Util-linux-2.12a
    • GCC-2.95.3
    • About debugging symbols
    • Stripping again
    • Cleaning up

  • 7. Setting up system boot scripts

    • Introduction
    • LFS-Bootscripts-2.0.4
    • How does the booting process with these scripts work?
    • Configuring the setclock script
    • Do I need the loadkeys script?
    • Configuring the sysklogd script
    • Configuring the localnet script
    • Creating the /etc/hosts file
    • Configuring the network script

  • 8. Making the LFS system bootable

    • Introduction
    • Creating the /etc/fstab file
    • Linux-2.4.26
    • Making the LFS system bootable

  • 9. The End

    • The End
    • Get Counted
    • Rebooting the system
    • What now?

• Index of packages and important installed files