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authorDavid Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com>2022-09-30 11:22:10 -0500
committerDavid Bryant <davidbryant@gvtc.com>2022-09-30 11:24:14 -0500
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Clarify some things in Intro to chroot; simplify some verbiage.
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<title>Introduction</title>
<para>This chapter shows how to build the last missing bits of the temporary
- system: the tools needed by the build machinery of various packages. Now
+ system: the tools needed to build the various packages. Now
that all circular dependencies have been resolved, a <quote>chroot</quote>
environment, completely isolated from the host operating system (except for
the running kernel), can be used for the build.</para>
<para>For proper operation of the isolated environment, some communication
- with the running kernel must be established. This is done through the
+ with the running kernel must be established. This is done via the
so-called <emphasis>Virtual Kernel File Systems</emphasis>, which must be
- mounted when entering the chroot environment. You may want to check
- that they are mounted by issuing <command>findmnt</command>.</para>
+ mounted before entering the chroot environment. You may want to verify
+ that they are mounted by issuing the <command>findmnt</command> command.</para>
<para>Until <xref linkend="ch-tools-chroot"/>, the commands must be
run as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>, with the
<envar>LFS</envar> variable set. After entering chroot, all commands
are run as &root;, fortunately without access to the OS of the computer
you built LFS on. Be careful anyway, as it is easy to destroy the whole
- LFS system with badly formed commands.</para>
+ LFS system with bad commands.</para>
</sect1>