Chapters 6 through 8: Building the Basics [July 15, 2012, 10:38 p.m.]
As per the previous task, you'll be working mostly with the book for this task. Start on page 47 (that's a book page; add 13 if you're counting from the front cover, so it's really page 60). Here's a link to the book,
http://greenback.gremlin.net/CLFS-x86.pdf
For the purpose of this challenge, you should follow the "if you are going to chroot" instructions all the way through. We'll come back and make the system bootable later.
And here's some spec files for reference: