III. Building the LFS System

Table of Contents

• 6. Installing Basic System Software

  • Introduction
  • Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems
  • Package Management
  • Entering the Chroot Environment
  • Creating Directories
  • Creating Essential Files and Symlinks
  • Linux-Libc-Headers-2.6.12.0
  • Man-pages-2.34
  • Glibc-2.3.6
  • Re-adjusting the Toolchain
  • Binutils-2.16.1
  • GCC-4.0.3
  • Berkeley DB-4.4.20
  • Coreutils-5.96
  • Iana-Etc-2.10
  • M4-1.4.4
  • Bison-2.2
  • Ncurses-5.5
  • Procps-3.2.6
  • Sed-4.1.5
  • Libtool-1.5.22
  • Perl-5.8.8
  • Readline-5.1
  • Zlib-1.2.3
  • Autoconf-2.59
  • Automake-1.9.6
  • Bash-3.1
  • Bzip2-1.0.3
  • Diffutils-2.8.1
  • E2fsprogs-1.39
  • File-4.17
  • Findutils-4.2.27
  • Flex-2.5.33
  • GRUB-0.97
  • Gawk-3.1.5
  • Gettext-0.14.5
  • Grep-2.5.1a
  • Groff-1.18.1.1
  • Gzip-1.3.5
  • Inetutils-1.4.2
  • IPRoute2-2.6.16-060323
  • Kbd-1.12
  • Less-394
  • Make-3.80
  • Man-DB-2.4.3
  • Mktemp-1.5
  • Module-Init-Tools-3.2.2
  • Patch-2.5.4
  • Psmisc-22.2
  • Shadow-4.0.15
  • Sysklogd-1.4.1
  • Sysvinit-2.86
  • Tar-1.15.1
  • Texinfo-4.8
  • Udev-096
  • Util-linux-2.12r
  • Vim-7.0
  • About Debugging Symbols
  • Stripping Again
  • Cleaning Up

• 7. Setting Up System Bootscripts

  • Introduction
  • LFS-Bootscripts-6.2
  • How Do These Bootscripts Work?
  • Device and Module Handling on an LFS System
  • Configuring the setclock Script
  • Configuring the Linux Console
  • Configuring the sysklogd script
  • Creating the /etc/inputrc File
  • The Bash Shell Startup Files
  • Configuring the localnet Script
  • Customizing the /etc/hosts File
  • Creating custom symlinks to devices
  • Configuring the network Script

• 8. Making the LFS System Bootable

  • Introduction
  • Creating the /etc/fstab File
  • Linux-2.6.16.27
  • Making the LFS System Bootable

• 9. The End

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