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appendices Update Greg Schafer's entry in the acknowledgments section 2008-12-08 00:24:02 +00:00
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chapter01 Upgrade to Tar-1.22. Fixes #2358. 2009-03-11 21:37:34 +00:00
chapter02 Corrected the instruction to untar the E2fsprogs tarball in Section 2.3, thanks to William Immendorf for pointing out the error 2008-10-07 19:33:21 +00:00
chapter03 Upgrade to Tar-1.22. Fixes #2358. 2009-03-11 21:37:34 +00:00
chapter04 Bring in DIY's next generation build method. Move GRUB to chapter 8. 2008-12-05 20:46:02 +00:00
chapter05 Upgrade to Tar-1.22. Fixes #2358. 2009-03-11 21:37:34 +00:00
chapter06 Upgrade to Tar-1.22. Fixes #2358. 2009-03-11 21:37:34 +00:00
chapter07 Replace the udev-FAQ link with a more general further reading link. Fixes #2333. 2009-02-08 19:03:43 +00:00
chapter08 Fix some typos and grammar issues reported by Chris Staub in #2307. 2009-02-01 23:38:45 +00:00
chapter09 Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5 2007-03-21 18:42:58 +00:00
images Import the admonition graphics from the DocBook-XSL package. 2007-02-09 22:04:35 +00:00
prologue Reformatted several pages so pdf is properly generated. 2009-01-04 04:48:38 +00:00
stylesheets Minor changes for consistent pdf generation 2009-01-15 07:20:24 +00:00
udev-config Finish fixing udev rules 2008-12-29 17:37:16 +00:00
aux-file-data.sh Date type and remove some tab characters 2008-11-07 03:19:55 +00:00
general.ent Upgrade to Bash-4.0. Fixes #2351. 2009-03-11 21:27:25 +00:00
index.xml Add udev rules as an appendix 2008-06-04 17:15:04 +00:00
INSTALL Fixed ambiguity in INSTALL. 2005-07-15 21:16:18 +00:00
make-aux-files.sh Moved bootscripts and udev-config to BOOK 2008-06-03 21:51:14 +00:00
Makefile process-scripts.sh and make-aux-files.sh don't currently make use of command line parameters. 2009-01-21 04:21:02 +00:00
obfuscate.sh Added a versose flag and other fixes to the Makefile. 2007-07-06 17:54:18 +00:00
packages.ent Upgrade to Tar-1.22. Fixes #2358. 2009-03-11 21:37:34 +00:00
patches.ent Upgrade to Tar-1.22. Fixes #2358. 2009-03-11 21:37:34 +00:00
process-scripts.sh Change book build scripts to specify bash, not sh 2008-07-16 19:12:53 +00:00
README Updated README and INSTALL. 2005-07-15 19:38:31 +00:00
tidy.conf HTML Tidy's newline detection appears to be broken. Force LF line endings assuming people are rendering on a Linux box 2005-07-02 22:03:29 +00:00

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