Linux From Scratch

Table of Contents

• Preface

  • Foreword
  • Audience
  • Prerequisites
  • Typography
  • Structure

• I. Introduction

  • 1. Introduction

    • How to Build an LFS System
    • Changelog
    • Resources
    • Help
    • About the Included CD

  • 2. Preparing a New Partition

    • Introduction
    • Creating a New Partition
    • Creating a File System on the Partition
    • Mounting the New Partition

• II. Preparing for the Build

  • 3. Packages and Patches

    • Introduction
    • All Packages
    • Needed Patches

  • 4. Final Preparations

    • About $LFS
    • Creating the $LFS/tools Directory
    • Adding the LFS User
    • Setting Up the Environment
    • About SBUs
    • About the Test Suites

  • 5. Constructing a Temporary System

    • Introduction
    • Host System Requirements
    • Toolchain Technical Notes
    • Binutils-2.15.91.0.2 - Pass 1
    • GCC-3.4.1 - Pass 1
    • Linux-Libc-Headers-2.6.8.1
    • Linux-2.6.8.1 Headers
    • Glibc-2.3.4-20040701
    • Adjusting the Toolchain
    • Tcl-8.4.7
    • Expect-5.42.1
    • DejaGNU-1.4.4
    • GCC-3.4.1 - Pass 2
    • Binutils-2.15.91.0.2 - Pass 2
    • Gawk-3.1.4
    • 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-4.1.2
    • Gettext-0.14.1
    • Ncurses-5.4
    • Patch-2.5.4
    • Tar-1.14
    • Texinfo-4.7
    • Bash-3.0
    • M4-1.4.2
    • Bison-1.875a
    • Flex-2.5.31
    • Util-linux-2.12b
    • Perl-5.8.5
    • Udev-030
    • Stripping

• III. Building the LFS System

  • 6. Installing Basic System Software

    • Introduction
    • Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems
    • Entering the Chroot Environment
    • Changing Ownership
    • Creating Directories
    • Creating Essential Symlinks
    • Creating the passwd, group, and log Files
    • Populating /dev
    • Linux-Libc-Headers-2.6.8.1
    • Man-pages-1.67
    • Glibc-2.3.4-20040701
    • Re-adjusting the Toolchain
    • Binutils-2.15.91.0.2
    • GCC-3.4.1
    • Coreutils-5.2.1
    • Zlib-1.2.1
    • Mktemp-1.5
    • Iana-Etc-1.01
    • Findutils-4.1.20
    • Gawk-3.1.4
    • Ncurses-5.4
    • Readline-5.0
    • Vim-6.3
    • M4-1.4.2
    • Bison-1.875a
    • Less-382
    • Groff-1.19.1
    • Sed-4.1.2
    • Flex-2.5.31
    • Gettext-0.14.1
    • Inetutils-1.4.2
    • Iproute2-2.6.8-040823
    • Perl-5.8.5
    • Texinfo-4.7
    • Autoconf-2.59
    • Automake-1.9.1
    • Bash-3.0
    • File-4.10
    • Libtool-1.5.8
    • Bzip2-1.0.2
    • Diffutils-2.8.1
    • Kbd-1.12
    • E2fsprogs-1.35
    • Grep-2.5.1
    • Grub-0.95
    • Gzip-1.3.5
    • Man-1.5o
    • Make-3.80
    • Module-Init-Tools-3.0
    • Patch-2.5.4
    • Procps-3.2.3
    • Psmisc-21.5
    • Shadow-4.0.4.1
    • Sysklogd-1.4.1
    • Sysvinit-2.85
    • Tar-1.14
    • Udev-030
    • Util-linux-2.12b
    • About Debugging Symbols
    • Stripping Again
    • Cleaning Up

  • 7. Setting Up System Bootscripts

    • Introduction
    • LFS-Bootscripts-2.2.2
    • How Do These Bootscripts Work?
    • Device and Module Handling on an LFS System
    • Configuring the setclock Script
    • Configuring the Linux Console
    • Creating the /etc/inputrc File
    • The Bash Shell Startup Files
    • 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-2.6.8.1
    • Making the LFS System Bootable

  • 9. The End

    • The End
    • Get Counted
    • Rebooting the System
    • What Now?

• IV. Appendices

  • A. Acronyms and Terms
  • B. Acknowledgments

• Index