tag + typo fixes

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2432 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

3 files changed, 19 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/chapter06/kernel-inst.xml b/chapter06/kernel-inst.xml
index 55f1482e5..2b02a202b 100644
--- a/chapter06/kernel-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/kernel-inst.xml
@@ -9,21 +9,23 @@ kernel header files, we're going to unpack the kernel archive now, set it up
 and copy the header files so they can be found by these packages.</para>
 
 <para>It is important to note that the files in the kernel source directory
-are not owned by root. Whenever you unpack a package as user root (like we
-do here inside chroot), the files end up having the user and group ID's of
-whatever they were on the packager's computer. This is usually not a
+are not owned by <emphasis>root</emphasis>. Whenever you unpack a package as
+user <emphasis>root</emphasis> (like we do here inside chroot), the files end
+up having the user and group IDs of whatever they were on the packager's
+computer. This is usually not a
 problem for any other package you install because you remove the source
 tree after the installation. But the Linux kernel source tree is often kept
-around for a long time, so there's a chance that whatever userid was used will
-be assigned to somebody on your machine and that person would have write
-access to the kernel source.</para>
+around for a long time, so there's a chance that whatever user ID the packager
+used will be assigned to somebody on your machine and then that person would
+have write access to the kernel source.</para>
 
 <para>In light of this, you might want to run <userinput>chown -R 0:0</userinput>
 on the <filename>linux-&kernel-version;</filename> directory
 to ensure all files are owned by user <emphasis>root</emphasis>.</para>
 
-<para>Kernel header installation requires the <emphasis>pwd</emphasis> program.
-In the kernel source, the path to the pwd program is hard-wired as /bin/pwd.
+<para>Kernel header installation requires the <filename>pwd</filename> program.
+In the kernel source the path to the <filename>pwd</filename> program is
+hard-wired as <filename>/bin/pwd</filename>.
 Create a symlink to account for that:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>ln -s /static/bin/pwd /bin/pwd</userinput></screen></para>
@@ -58,7 +60,7 @@ cp -R include/asm-generic /usr/include</userinput></screen></para>
 <para>There are a few kernel header files which make use of the
 <filename>autoconf.h</filename> header file. Since we do not yet configure the
 kernel, we need to create this file ourselves in order to avoid compilation
-failures. Create an empty autoconf.h file:</para>
+failures. Create an empty <filename>autoconf.h</filename> file:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>touch /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h</userinput></screen></para>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml b/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml
index b86622643..169c7e144 100644
--- a/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/makedev-inst.xml
@@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ create devices via the <emphasis>mknod</emphasis> program. Please refer to
 the man and info pages of <emphasis>mknod</emphasis> if you need more
 information.</para>
 
-<para>If you intend to use devpts, pass the
+<para>If you intend to use <emphasis>devpts</emphasis>, pass the
 <userinput>generic-nopty</userinput> option to <filename>MAKEDEV</filename>.
 This creates the same devices as <userinput>generic</userinput>, but it skips
-the creation of pty devices so that devpts can manage them itself.</para>
+the creation of <emphasis>pty</emphasis> devices so that
+<emphasis>devpts<emphasis> can manage those.</para>
 
 </sect2>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
index 87dabb10c..caa57280f 100644
--- a/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
+++ b/chapter06/pwdgroup.xml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 <title>Creating the passwd and group files</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="pwdgroup.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
-<para>In order for root to be able to login and for the name "root" to be
-recognized, there need to be relevant entries in the
+<para>In order for <emphasis>root</emphasis> to be able to login and for the
+name "root" to be recognized, there need to be relevant entries in the
 <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> and
 <filename>/etc/group</filename> files.</para>
 
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ following command:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>echo "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash" &gt; /etc/passwd</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>The actual password for root (the "x" here is just a placeholder) will
-be set later.</para>
+<para>The actual password for <emphasis>root</emphasis> (the "x" here is
+just a placeholder) will be set later.</para>
 
 <para>Create the <filename>/etc/group</filename> file by running the
 following command:</para>
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ audio:x:11:
 
 <para>The created groups aren't part of any standard -- they are the groups
 that the MAKEDEV script in the next section uses. Besides the group "root",
-the LSB (<ulink url="http://www.linuxbase.org"/>) (recommends only a group
+the LSB (<ulink url="http://www.linuxbase.org"/>) recommends only a group
 "bin", with a GID of 1, be present. All other group names and GIDs can be
 chosen freely by the user, as well-written packages don't depend on GID
 numbers but use the group's name.</para>