Cross Linux From Scratch

This course will become read-only in the near future. Tell us at community.p2pu.org if that is a problem.

Downloads [June 1, 2012, 2:38 p.m.]


I'll be referring to files from this task later. Go ahead and check it off. You might want to keep it open in another tab.

Scripts

I've copied in some scripts from the CLFS book, the internet, and written a couple myself, which I have hosted here:

http://greenback.gremlin.net/chown

http://greenback.gremlin.net/RENAME.profile

http://greenback.gremlin.net/RENAME.profile2

http://greenback.gremlin.net/downloads.txt

http://greenback.gremlin.net/version-check.sh

http://greenback.gremlin.net/xsel.c

http://greenback.gremlin.net/git.sh

http://greenback.gremlin.net/curl.sh

 

Sources

These are all the "parts" you'll be making linux out of. To get all the sources at once, grab the downloads.txt file from the link above, and then run this command in a bash shell

wget -i downloads.txt

If you don't have wget, you can find generic instructions that will work in any build environment for building and installing it from source in wget's page in the CBLFS book, here:

http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/Wget

The source for the Neal Stephenson essay that contains the "Hole Hawg" excerpt can be found here:

http://www.cryptonomicon.com/command.zip

 

Windows

Windows users will also want to download all of these:

http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-cpp-express

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz

http://www.fs-driver.org/

http://www.ext2fsd.com/

http://cygwin.com/install.html

 

Back-up

Once you've downloaded everything, now would be a good time to back up everything you downloaded. I prefer using a CD or DVD, because those are read-only, which means your files can't be accidentally deleted later.