Normally the functionality of uname is somewhat broken, in that the -p switch always returns "unknown". This patch fixes that behaviour: patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-&coreutils-patch-version;.patch Prepare Coreutils to be compiled: ./configure --prefix=/usr Continue with compiling the package: make Install the package: make install Move files to their proper locations: mv /usr/bin/{basename,cat,chgrp,chmod,chown,cp,dd,df} /bin && mv /usr/bin/{dir,dircolors,du,date,echo,false,head} /bin && mv /usr/bin/{install,ln,ls,mkdir,mkfifo,mknod,mv,pwd} /bin && mv /usr/bin/{rm,rmdir,shred,sync,sleep,stty,su,test} /bin && mv /usr/bin/{touch,true,uname,vdir} /bin mv /usr/bin/chroot /usr/sbin Finally, create a few necessary symlinks ln -s test /bin/[ ln -s ../../bin/install /usr/bin