For your convenience, we have included a CD with this book that contains the source packages needed for creating a Linux From Scratch system. The CD is bootable and provides a stable working environment for building LFS. This book refers to this system as the “host system.”
In addition to the tools required to build LFS, the host system on the CD has a number of other helpful tools installed:
An HTML version of this book
The X Window System Environment
Web Tools
Wget (command line file retriever)
Lynx (text web browser)
Irssi (console IRC client)
Firefox (graphical web browser)
Xchat (X-based IRC client)
Text Editors
Vim
Nano
Network Tools
SSH Server and Client
NFS Server and Client
Smbmount (mount.cifs) for Windows shares
Subversion
Dhcpcd (DHCP client)
Filesystem Programs
Reiserfsprogs
Xfsprogs
nALFS - A tool for automating LFS builds