I installed LFS on another partition, which I'm composing this article on, but I want to start over again with what I've learned. I also changed references to kernel 2.4.8 and replaced them with 2.4.10. The documentation and operation is quite easy. In addition to the LFS site, there are quite a few people out there publishing their LFS profiles. The implication of this project coupled with LFS is pretty fabulous for systems administrators automating and controlling server builds.
Servers are recoverable and self documenting.
The XML format of the spec file, of course, could easily be viewed with a web application. Works well here at NetAdminTools. Tar can be much better behaved than cp. Make sure you use GNU tar, since other tar versions don't work as well. I posted some earlier stories in the NetAdminTools Desktop area about struggling with GNUCash.