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| -rw-r--r-- | appendixa/lfs-utils-shortdesc.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/acknowledgements.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/contactinfo.xml | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/versions.xml | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter04/chapter04.xml | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/basic-net.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/chapter06.xml | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/lfs-utils-inst.xml | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/perl-inst.xml | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter08/grub.xml | 4 |
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diff --git a/appendixa/lfs-utils-shortdesc.xml b/appendixa/lfs-utils-shortdesc.xml index 9bc7524c3..768c1f8c9 100644 --- a/appendixa/lfs-utils-shortdesc.xml +++ b/appendixa/lfs-utils-shortdesc.xml @@ -9,4 +9,6 @@ individual package.</para> <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: mktemp, tempfile, http-get and iana-net</para> +<para><emphasis>Installed files</emphasis>: protocols, services</para> + </sect2> diff --git a/chapter01/acknowledgements.xml b/chapter01/acknowledgements.xml index 5f3d1fcea..7e05b5c19 100644 --- a/chapter01/acknowledgements.xml +++ b/chapter01/acknowledgements.xml @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Utley</ulink> <jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org> -- LFS Book editor, Bugzilla maintainer.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Countless other people on the various LFS and BLFS -mailinglists who are making this book happen by giving their suggestions, +mailing lists who are making this book happen by giving their suggestions, testing the book and submitting bug reports, instructions and their experiences with installing various packages.</para></listitem> @@ -242,8 +242,8 @@ moved it was renamed to <emphasis>belgarath</emphasis>.</para></listitem> Tie-Ten-Quee</ulink> <highos@linuxfromscratch.org> for donating a Yamaha CDRW 8824E CD-writer.</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Countless other people on the various LFS mailinglists who are -making this book happen by giving their suggestions, submitting bug reports, +<listitem><para>Countless other people on the various LFS mailing lists who are +making this book better by giving their suggestions, submitting bug reports, and throwing in their criticism.</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index ced1561e5..e65ce00dc 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -95,6 +95,12 @@ </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> +<listitem><para>October 8th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 8 - Making bootable: Adapted +the style of the screens, and reworded some paragraphs.</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>October 8th, 2003 [alex]: Removed a series of unused +entities.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>October 7th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added notes to the linking tests in chapter 5 and 6 stating that blank output is a bad thing.</para></listitem> diff --git a/chapter01/contactinfo.xml b/chapter01/contactinfo.xml index 9da1994ce..5129b6f34 100644 --- a/chapter01/contactinfo.xml +++ b/chapter01/contactinfo.xml @@ -6,21 +6,23 @@ <sect2 id="ch01-faq"> <title>FAQ</title> -<para>If you encounter any errors, have any questions, or if you find a -typo in the book, then, please consult the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) -page at <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/"/>.</para> +<para>If during the building of your LFS system you encounter any errors, or +have any questions, or think you found a typo in the book, then please first +consult the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) at +<ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/"/>.</para> </sect2> + <sect2 id="ch01-irc"> <title>IRC</title> -<para>Members of the LFS community offer assistance on our community IRC -server. If you decide to utilize this mode of support, we ask that you -at least ensure you've checked the LFS FAQ and the mailing list archives -for the answer to your question. You can find the IRC server at -irc.linuxfromscratch.org port 6667. The support channel is named -#LFS-support.</para> +<para>Several members of the LFS community offer assistance on our community +IRC server. Before you utilize this mode of support, we ask that you've +at least checked the LFS FAQ and the mailing list archives for the answer to +your question. You can find the IRC server at +<emphasis>irc.linuxfromscratch.org</emphasis> port 6667. The support channel +is named #LFS-support.</para> </sect2> @@ -29,7 +31,7 @@ irc.linuxfromscratch.org port 6667. The support channel is named <title>Mailing lists</title> <para>The <emphasis>linuxfromscratch.org</emphasis> server is hosting a number -of mailinglists used for the development of the LFS project. These lists +of mailing lists used for the development of the LFS project. These lists include, among others, the main development and support lists.</para> <para>For information on which lists are available, how to subscribe to them, diff --git a/chapter01/versions.xml b/chapter01/versions.xml index ef5657a64..da0b07a66 100644 --- a/chapter01/versions.xml +++ b/chapter01/versions.xml @@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ <title>Book version</title> <?dbhtml filename="version.html" dir="chapter01"?> -<para>This is LFS-BOOK version &version; dated &releasedate;. If this -version is older than a month a newer version is probably already available -for download. Check one of the mirror sites below for updated -versions.</para> +<para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated +&releasedate;. If this book is more than two months old, a newer and better +version is probably already available. To find out, check one of the mirrors +listed on <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/"/>.</para> </sect1> diff --git a/chapter04/chapter04.xml b/chapter04/chapter04.xml index 0287c31c0..54344a30a 100644 --- a/chapter04/chapter04.xml +++ b/chapter04/chapter04.xml @@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ been worked around yet.</para> <para>All the URLs, when possible, refer to the project's page at <ulink url="http://www.freshmeat.net/"/>. The Freshmeat pages will give you easy access to the official download sites as well as -project websites, mailinglists, FAQs, Changelogs and more.</para> - -<para>We can't guarantee that these download locations are always available -to you. In case a download location has changed since this book was -published, please try to google for the package. Should you remain -unsuccessful with this, you can consult the book's errata page at -<ulink url="http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/print/"/> or try -the alternative means of downloading given at +project websites, mailing lists, FAQs, changelogs and more.</para> + +<para>We can't guarantee that these download locations are always available. +In case a download location has changed since this book was published, please +try to google for the package. Should you remain unsuccessful with this, you +can consult the book's errata page at +<ulink url="http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/print/"/> or, better yet, try one +of the alternative means of downloading listed on <ulink url="http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/packages.html"/>.</para> <para>You'll need to store all the downloaded packages and patches somewhere diff --git a/chapter06/basic-net.xml b/chapter06/basic-net.xml index 8b537a76e..d868d7460 100644 --- a/chapter06/basic-net.xml +++ b/chapter06/basic-net.xml @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ <title>Setting up Basic Networking</title> <?dbhtml filename="basic-net.html" dir="chapter06"?> +<!-- Will clean this up later. --> + <para>Here will be set up basic networking now that all the necessary software has been installed. There isn't all that much to do, really, just creating a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file, and downloading diff --git a/chapter06/chapter06.xml b/chapter06/chapter06.xml index bc2e4f8c2..6de08e206 100644 --- a/chapter06/chapter06.xml +++ b/chapter06/chapter06.xml @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ &c6-gettext; &c6-nettools; &c6-inetutils; -&c6-basic-net; &c6-perl; &c6-texinfo; &c6-autoconf; diff --git a/chapter06/lfs-utils-inst.xml b/chapter06/lfs-utils-inst.xml index c9ce92233..5bc4a0d5a 100644 --- a/chapter06/lfs-utils-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/lfs-utils-inst.xml @@ -11,5 +11,14 @@ <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para> +<para>Now copy two supporting files included in the Lfs-Utils tarball to +their destination:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>cp -f etc/{services,protocols} /etc</userinput></screen></para> + +<para>The <filename>/etc/services</filename> file is used to resolve service +numbers to human-readable names, and the <filename>/etc/protocols</filename> +does the same for protocol numbers.</para> + </sect2> diff --git a/chapter06/perl-inst.xml b/chapter06/perl-inst.xml index 26d418747..3b8788879 100644 --- a/chapter06/perl-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/perl-inst.xml @@ -18,8 +18,13 @@ above.</para> <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para> <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of -checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, the -following command will do so:</para> +checks to ensure it built correctly. Should you choose to run it, you first +have to create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file, needed by a +couple of tests to resolve the name <emphasis>localhost</emphasis>:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts</userinput></screen></para> + +<para>Now run the tests, if you wish:</para> <para><screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen></para> diff --git a/chapter08/grub.xml b/chapter08/grub.xml index 741cdf647..426457deb 100644 --- a/chapter08/grub.xml +++ b/chapter08/grub.xml @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ doesn't consider CD-ROM drives to be hard drives, so if you have a CD on <filename>hdc</filename>, that second hard drive would still be (hd1).</para> <para>Using the above information, determine the appropriate designator for -your root partition. For the folowing example, we'll assume your root partition -is <filename>hda4</filename>.</para> +your root partition. For the following example, we'll assume your root +partition is <filename>hda4</filename>.</para> <para>First, tell Grub where to search for its <filename>stage{1,2}</filename> files -- you can use Tab everywhere to make Grub show the alternatives:</para> |