How to Contribute

Become a mirror

You can assist the LFS project by providing an HTTP or FTP mirror. The HTTP mirrors provide the LFS website, books, patches and hints. The FTP mirrors can provide a number of services including LFS packages, BLFS packages and LiveCD mirrors. The requirements for the various mirrors are listed below. If you would like to become a mirror for HTTP, please send an email to the website list. To become an FTP mirror, please email the FTP mirror maintainer, bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org. Thank you.

Requirements

Here is a list of requirements for the various mirrors. All mirrors require that you use rsync to sync your mirrors with our main servers, and a cron program to schedule it for you.

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HTTP Mirror

At least 200MB of disk space.
Apache Webserver or equivalent with the following options enabled:
- Indexes
- FollowSymlinks
- IncludesNOEXEC
- XBitHack on

Note: Mirror Admins who don't have access to the httpd config file on the server can still mirror using .htaccess files. A short description is available here: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/website/2005-November/005760.html.

LFS FTP Mirror

At least 2.5GB of disk space.
The path to the mirror being "/pub/lfs/", if possible.

LiveCD FTP Mirror

At least 4.0GB of disk space.
The path to the mirror being "/pub/lfs-livecd/", if possible.

Still interested?

If you are still interested in becoming a mirror, please email the following information to the appropriate list or person listed above. We will provide you with an rsync script and other information to help setup your mirror.

Location (City and Country)
Hostname and IP Address
Bandwidth
Contact Name and Valid E-mail Address

Buy the LFS 6.0 Hard Copy

Unfortunately the hard copy version of LFS 6.0 is no longer in print or available for purchase.

Make a donation

One of the ways to help the Linux From Scratch project is by making donations. Financial donations can be made through PayPal using a major credit card.

If you want to donate but can't use PayPal, please contact Gerard Beekmans.

The majority of donations will be used to pay the monthly server colocation bill. Anything left over will be put back into the project such as sending people cdroms who don't have a high-speed Internet connection to download all the required packages, upgrade the server hardware when necessary, or whatever else needs done to keep the LFS project running smoothly.