LSB-V3 Installation: Inline LFS installation: make install && sed -i.bak 's@/etc/rc.d@/etc@' /etc/inittab After LFS: for file in /etc/rc.d /etc/sysconfig/rc /etc/sysconfig/modules \ /etc/sysconfig/createfiles do mv $file $file.bak done && make install && sed -i.bak 's@/etc/rc.d@/etc@' /etc/inittab With existing scripts: HERE=$PWD cp -a /etc/rc.d /etc/rc.d.bak && mv /etc/rc.d/* /etc && cd /etc/rc.d && ln -s ../rc*.d . && ln -s ../init.d . && for file in /etc/rc.d /etc/syconfig/rc \ /etc/sysconfig/modules /etc/sysconfig/createfiles do mv $file $file.bak done && cd $HERE && unset HERE && make install && sed -i.bak 's@/etc/rc.d@/etc/@' /etc/inittab That's it!