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-2.6.32.8 API Headers
  • Man-pages-3.23
  • Glibc-2.11.1
  • Re-adjusting the Toolchain
  • Zlib-1.2.3
  • Binutils-2.20
  • GMP-5.0.0
  • MPFR-2.4.2
  • File-5.04
  • GCC-4.4.3
  • Sed-4.2.1
  • Pkg-config-0.23
  • Ncurses-5.7
  • Util-linux-ng-2.17
  • E2fsprogs-1.41.10
  • Coreutils-8.4
  • Iana-Etc-2.30
  • M4-1.4.13
  • Bison-2.4.1
  • Procps-3.2.8
  • Grep-2.5.4
  • Readline-6.1
  • Bash-4.1
  • Libtool-2.2.6b
  • GDBM-1.8.3
  • Inetutils-1.7
  • Perl-5.10.1
  • Autoconf-2.65
  • Automake-1.11.1
  • Bzip2-1.0.5
  • Diffutils-2.8.1
  • Gawk-3.1.7
  • Findutils-4.4.2
  • Flex-2.5.35
  • Gettext-0.17
  • Groff-1.20.1
  • GRUB-1.97.2
  • Gzip-1.4
  • IPRoute2-2.6.31
  • Kbd-1.15.1
  • Less-436
  • Make-3.81
  • Man-DB-2.5.6
  • Module-Init-Tools-3.11.1
  • Patch-2.6.1
  • Psmisc-22.10
  • Shadow-4.1.4.2
  • Sysklogd-1.5
  • Sysvinit-2.86
  • Tar-1.22
  • Texinfo-4.13a
  • Udev-151
  • Vim-7.2
  • About Debugging Symbols
  • Stripping Again
  • Cleaning Up

• 7. Setting Up System Bootscripts

  • Introduction
  • LFS-Bootscripts-20100124
  • 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-2.6.32.8
  • Using GRUB to Set Up the Boot Process

• 9. The End

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