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-2.6.37 API Headers
  • Man-pages-3.32
  • Glibc-2.13
  • Re-adjusting the Toolchain
  • Zlib-1.2.5
  • Binutils-2.21
  • GMP-5.0.1
  • MPFR-3.0.0
  • MPC-0.8.2
  • GCC-4.5.2
  • Sed-4.2.1
  • Pkg-config-0.25
  • Ncurses-5.7
  • Util-linux-2.19
  • E2fsprogs-1.41.14
  • Coreutils-8.10
  • Iana-Etc-2.30
  • M4-1.4.15
  • Bison-2.4.3
  • Procps-3.2.8
  • Grep-2.7
  • Readline-6.2
  • Bash-4.2
  • Libtool-2.4
  • GDBM-1.8.3
  • Inetutils-1.8
  • Perl-5.12.3
  • Autoconf-2.68
  • Automake-1.11.1
  • Bzip2-1.0.6
  • Diffutils-3.0
  • Gawk-3.1.8
  • File-5.05
  • Findutils-4.4.2
  • Flex-2.5.35
  • Gettext-0.18.1.1
  • Groff-1.21
  • GRUB-1.98
  • Gzip-1.4
  • IPRoute2-2.6.37
  • Kbd-1.15.2
  • Less-436
  • Make-3.82
  • Xz-5.0.1
  • Man-DB-2.5.9
  • Module-Init-Tools-3.12
  • Patch-2.6.1
  • Psmisc-22.13
  • Shadow-4.1.4.3
  • Sysklogd-1.5
  • Sysvinit-2.88dsf
  • Tar-1.25
  • Texinfo-4.13a
  • Udev-166
  • Vim-7.3
  • About Debugging Symbols
  • Stripping Again
  • Cleaning Up

• 7. Setting Up System Bootscripts

  • Introduction
  • LFS-Bootscripts-20100627
  • How Do These Bootscripts Work?
  • Configuring the setclock Script
  • Configuring the Linux Console
  • Configuring the sysklogd Script
  • Creating the /etc/inputrc File
  • The Bash Shell Startup Files
  • Device and Module Handling on an LFS System
  • Creating Custom Symlinks to Devices
  • Configuring the localnet Script
  • Customizing the /etc/hosts File
  • Configuring the network Script

• 8. Making the LFS System Bootable

  • Introduction
  • Creating the /etc/fstab File
  • Linux-2.6.37
  • Using GRUB to Set Up the Boot Process

• 9. The End

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