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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-05-28 00:52:20 +0000
committerGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-05-28 00:52:20 +0000
commit93bd6644190100a381973c6782dd01d61b1a1e6c (patch)
treec1284dc845838be7952e6a447f812c86fa88f999 /chapter06
parent22a250e0ade0e89517abfa714e59c5646df349eb (diff)
applied Alex' procandshuffle patch
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1922 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/mountproc.xml11
-rw-r--r--chapter06/reiserfs-inst.xml2
-rw-r--r--chapter06/vim-inst.xml12
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/mountproc.xml b/chapter06/mountproc.xml
index cfc6f3a6f..27569062d 100644
--- a/chapter06/mountproc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/mountproc.xml
@@ -3,13 +3,14 @@
<?dbhtml filename="proc.html" dir="chapter06"?>
<para>In order for certain programs to function properly, the proc file
-system must be mounted and available from within the chroot'ed environment
-as well. It's not a problem to mount the proc file system (or any other
-file system for that matter) twice or even more than that.</para>
+system must be available from within the chroot'ed environment.
+A file system can be mounted as many times and in as many places
+as you'd like, so it's not a problem that the proc file system is already
+mounted on your host system, especially so because proc is a
+virtual file system.</para>
<para>The proc file system is mounted under $LFS/proc by running the
-following command. Note that we don't use the $LFS variable because we
-are now in chroot.</para>
+following command.</para>
<para><screen><userinput>mount proc /proc -t proc</userinput></screen></para>
diff --git a/chapter06/reiserfs-inst.xml b/chapter06/reiserfs-inst.xml
index ea90f7e50..996770a13 100644
--- a/chapter06/reiserfs-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/reiserfs-inst.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
<sect2>
<title>Installation of Reiserfsprogs</title>
-<para>Reiserfsprogs only needs to be installed if you intend on using
+<para>Reiserfsprogs only needs to be installed if you intend to use
the reiserfs filesystem. Install Reiserfsprogs by running the
following commands:</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/vim-inst.xml b/chapter06/vim-inst.xml
index 69979fb86..394f02d43 100644
--- a/chapter06/vim-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/vim-inst.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
<sect2>
<title>Installation of Vim</title>
-<para>If you don't like vim to be installed as an editor on the LFS system,
-you may want to download an alternative and install an editor you
-prefer. There are a few hints how to install different editors
-available at <ulink url="&hints-root;"/>. The hints
-which are currently available are for Emacs, Joe and nano.</para>
+<para>If you don't like vim to be installed as an editor on your LFS system,
+you may want to download an alternative and install the editor you
+prefer. There are a few hints on how to install different editors
+available at <ulink url="&hints-root;"/>. Currently there are hints
+for Emacs, joe, and nano.</para>
<para>Install Vim by running the following commands:</para>
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ make CPPFLAGS=-DSYS_VIMRC_FILE=\\\"/etc/vimrc\\\" &amp;&amp;
make install &amp;&amp;
ln -sf vim /usr/bin/vi</userinput></screen></para>
-<para>If you plan on installing the X Window system on your LFS
+<para>If you plan to install the X Window system on your LFS
system, you might want to re-compile Vim after you have installed X. Vim
comes with a nice GUI version of the editor which requires X and a few
other libraries to be installed. For more information read the Vim