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-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml7
-rw-r--r--chapter06/coreutils.xml10
-rw-r--r--chapter06/findutils.xml7
-rw-r--r--chapter06/kbd.xml33
4 files changed, 48 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index bd5e4f6c0..4fbb93a8c 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@
<para>July 13, 2006</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] - Moved the executables: nice, find, kbd_mode,
+ openvt, and setfont to /bin to support boot scripts.
+ Added --datadir=/lib/kbd to kbd's configure so that keyboard
+ data will always be on the root partition.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[bdubbs] - Updated text in section 7.9 (The Bash
Shell Startup Files) to better explain the Xlib example.
</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/coreutils.xml b/chapter06/coreutils.xml
index bd3322219..bc614c205 100644
--- a/chapter06/coreutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/coreutils.xml
@@ -115,12 +115,12 @@ mv -v /usr/bin/{rmdir,stty,sync,true,uname} /bin
mv -v /usr/bin/chroot /usr/sbin</userinput></screen>
<para>Some of the scripts in the LFS-Bootscripts package depend on
- <command>head</command> and <command>sleep</command>. As
- <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> may not be available during the
- early stages of booting, those binaries need to be on the root
- partition:</para>
+ <command>head</command>, <command>sleep</command>, and
+ <command>nice</command>. As <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
+ may not be available during the early stages of booting, those binaries
+ need to be on the root partition:</para>
-<screen><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/{head,sleep} /bin</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/{head,sleep,nice} /bin</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
diff --git a/chapter06/findutils.xml b/chapter06/findutils.xml
index 344bb1091..deff44988 100644
--- a/chapter06/findutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/findutils.xml
@@ -67,6 +67,13 @@
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+ <para>Some of the scripts in the LFS-Bootscripts package depend on
+ <command>find</command>. As <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
+ may not be available during the early stages of booting, this program
+ needs to be on the root partition:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/find /bin</userinput></screen>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-findutils" role="content">
diff --git a/chapter06/kbd.xml b/chapter06/kbd.xml
index fde7b799d..1ada7b17c 100644
--- a/chapter06/kbd.xml
+++ b/chapter06/kbd.xml
@@ -50,7 +50,21 @@
<para>Prepare Kbd for compilation:</para>
-<screen><userinput>./configure</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>./configure --datadir=/lib/kbd</userinput></screen>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--datadir=/lib/kbd</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This option puts keyboard layout data in a directory that will
+ always be on the root partition instead of the default <filename
+ class="directory">/usr/share/kbd</filename>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
@@ -64,11 +78,22 @@
<note>
<para>For some languages (e.g., Belarusian) the Kbd package doesn't
- provide a useful keymap (the stock <quote>by</quote> keymap assumes the
- ISO-8859-5 encoding, while everybody uses CP1251 instead). Users of such
- languages have to download working keymaps separately.</para>
+ provide a useful keymap where the stock <quote>by</quote> keymap assumes
+ the ISO-8859-5 encoding, and the CP1251 keymap is normally used. Users of
+ such languages have to download working keymaps separately.</para>
</note>
+ <para>Some of the scripts in the LFS-Bootscripts package depend on
+ <command>kbd_mode</command>, <command>openvt</command>, and
+ <command>setfont</command>. As <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
+ may not be available during the early stages of booting, those binaries
+ need to be on the root partition:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>mv -v /usr/bin/{kbd_mode,openvt,setfont} /bin</userinput></screen>
+
+
+
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contents-kbd" role="content">