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on deploying an LFS system to another host.


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       package management for LFS systems is located at <ulink
       url="&hints-root;fakeroot.txt"/>.</para>
 
+      <para>Creation of package files that include dependency information is
+      complex and is beyond the scope of LFS.</para>
+
+      <para>Slackware uses a <command>tar</command> based system for package 
+      archives.  This system purposely does not handle package dependencies
+      as more complex package managers do.  For details of Slackware package
+      management, see <ulink
+      url="http://www.slackbook.org/html/package-management.html"/>.</para>
     </sect3>
 
     <sect3>
@@ -241,4 +249,35 @@ make DESTDIR=/usr/pkg/libfoo/1.1 install</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 
+  <sect2>
+    <title>Deploying LFS on Multiple Systems</title>
+
+    <para>One of the advantages of a LFS system is that there are no files that
+    depend on the position of files on a disk system.  Cloning an LFS build to
+    another computer with an architecture similar to the base system is as
+    simple as using <command>tar</command> on the LFS partition that contains
+    the root directory (about 250MB uncompressed for a base LFS build), copying
+    that file via network transfer or CD-ROM to the new system and expanding
+    it.  From that point, a few configuration files will have to be changed.
+    Configuration files that may need to be updated include: 
+    <filename>/etc/hosts</filename>,
+    <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>,
+    <filename>/etc/passwd</filename>,
+    <filename>/etc/group</filename>,
+    <filename>/etc/shadow</filename>,
+    <filename>/etc/ld.so.conf</filename>,
+    <filename>/etc/scsi_id.config</filename>,
+    <filename>/etc/sysconfig/network</filename> and
+    <filename>/etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/ipv4</filename>.    
+    </para>
+
+    <para>A custom kernel may need to be built for the new system depending on
+    differences in system hardware and the original kernel
+    configuration.</para>
+
+    <para>Finally the new system has to be made bootable via <xref
+    linkend="ch-bootable-grub"/>.</para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
 </sect1>