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This page lists the publicly available articles of the series Linux from Scratch. This series is a work in progress: more comprehensive documents will be added in time. While based losely on the online book
Linux from Scratch, it provides much greater detail and focusses on the installation of a working Web server.
Creating a Bootable LiveCD: to set up Linux on a virgin machine we need a simple OS providing some basic commands. This article explains how to create a bootable LiveCD containing a small Linux system, which we can use to install a personalized Linux system onto the harddisk.
Partitioning the Harddisk: using the partitioning program fdisk directly from the LiveCD in order to partition the harddisk for an efficient future usage of Linux.
Creating the Filesystems: creating ext3 filesystems on the individual partitions using mke2fs, and initializing the swap partition via mkswap.