Building the LFS system

Table of Contents

• 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?