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# Creating $LFS/root/.bash_profile

When we have entered the chroot'ed environment in the next section we want to export a couple of environment variables in that shell such as PS1, PATH and others variables you want to have set. For that purpose we'll create the $LFS/root/.bash_profile file which will be read by bash when we enter the chroot environment.

Create a new file `$LFS/root/.bash_profile` by running the following.

`cat > $LFS/root/.bash_profile << "EOF"`
# Begin /root/.bash_profile
PS1='\u:\w\$ '
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
export PS1 PATH
# End /root/.bash_profile
`EOF`

You can add more environment variables,aliases and whatever else you need/want at your own discretion as you deem them necessary.

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