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| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter04/chapter04.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/chapter06.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/makedev.xml | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter08/grub.xml | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | entities/makedev.ent | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | index.xml | 4 |
7 files changed, 28 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 01705ab51..d1d14c5c3 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -6,8 +6,11 @@ <itemizedlist> -<listitem><para>February 8th, 2004 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Updated to man-pages-1.66 -</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>February 9th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 6 - Moved the Bootscripts +installation section to chapter 7.</para></listitem> + +<listitem><para>February 8th, 2004 [matt]: Chapter 6 - Updated to +man-pages-1.66.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>February 7th, 2004 [alex]: Chapter 1 - Moved the Conventions and Acknowledgements sections to the Preface.</para></listitem> diff --git a/chapter04/chapter04.xml b/chapter04/chapter04.xml index 3e6bbd470..038038944 100644 --- a/chapter04/chapter04.xml +++ b/chapter04/chapter04.xml @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ 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="&lfs-root;/lfs/print/"/> +can consult the book's errata page at <ulink url="&lfs-root;lfs/print/"/> or, better yet, try one of the alternative means of downloading listed on -<ulink url="&lfs-root;/lfs/packages.html"/>.</para> +<ulink url="&lfs-root;lfs/packages.html"/>.</para> <para>You'll need to store all the downloaded packages and patches somewhere that is conveniently available throughout the entire build. You'll also need a diff --git a/chapter06/chapter06.xml b/chapter06/chapter06.xml index be329ce99..1012b15a5 100644 --- a/chapter06/chapter06.xml +++ b/chapter06/chapter06.xml @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ audio:x:11: <para>The created groups aren't part of any standard -- they are some of the groups that the <command>make_devices</command> script in the next section -uses. The LSB (<ulink url="http://www.linuxbase.org">Linux Standard +uses. The LSB (<ulink url="http://www.linuxbase.org/">Linux Standard Base</ulink>) recommends only that, beside the group "root" with a GID of 0, a group "bin" with a GID of 1 be present. All other group names and GIDs can be chosen freely by the system administrator, since well-written packages don't diff --git a/chapter06/makedev.xml b/chapter06/makedev.xml index 59be742ce..271ebef80 100644 --- a/chapter06/makedev.xml +++ b/chapter06/makedev.xml @@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ contains only a shell script.</para> chmod 754 /dev/make_devices</userinput></screen> <para>Device nodes are special files: things that can generate or receive data. -They usually correspond to physical pieces of hardware, and can be created by -issuing commands of the form: <command>mknod -m mode name type major +They usually correspond to physical pieces of hardware. Device nodes can be +created by issuing commands of the form: <command>mknod -m mode name type major minor</command>. In such a command, <emphasis>mode</emphasis> is the usual octal read/write/execute permissions triplet, and <emphasis>name</emphasis> is the name of the device file to be created. It may seem surprising, but the device name is actually arbitrary, except that most programs rely on devices such as <filename>/dev/null</filename> having their usual names. The remaining -three parameters tell the kernel what piece of hardware the device node +three parameters tell the kernel what device the node actually refers to. The <emphasis>type</emphasis> is a letter, either b or c, indicating whether the device is accessed in blocks (such as a hard disk) or character by character (such as the console). And <emphasis>major</emphasis> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ numbers for Linux can be found in the file <filename>devices.txt</filename> in the <filename class="directory">Documentation</filename> subdirectory of the kernel sources.</para> -<para>Note that the same major/minor combination are usually assigned to both a +<para>Note that the same major/minor combination is usually assigned to both a block and a character device. These are, however, completely unrelated devices that cannot be interchanged. A device is identified by the type/major/minor triple, not just the major/minor pair, so when creating a device node it is @@ -79,11 +79,11 @@ system.</para> <para>If that didn't work either, the only option left is to create a few ptyXX and ttyXX device nodes. To do this, open <filename>make_devices</filename> in your editor, go to the section "Pseudo-TTY masters" and enable as many ptyXX -devices as you think you will need (one for every active xterm, ssh connection, -telnet connection, and so on). In the immediately following section "Pseudo-TTY -slaves", enable the corresponding ttyXX devices. When you are done, rerun -<command>./make_devices</command> from inside <filename>/dev</filename> to have -it create the new devices.</para> +devices as you think you will need (every xterm, ssh connection, telnet +connection, and the like, uses one of these pseudo terminals). In the +immediately following section "Pseudo-TTY slaves", enable the corresponding +ttyXX devices. When you are done, rerun <command>./make_devices</command> from +inside <filename>/dev</filename> to have it create the new devices.</para> </sect2> diff --git a/chapter08/grub.xml b/chapter08/grub.xml index e934b7c9f..1a14968b8 100644 --- a/chapter08/grub.xml +++ b/chapter08/grub.xml @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ <?dbhtml filename="grub.html" dir="chapter08"?> <para>Your shiny new LFS system is almost complete. One of the last things to -do is ensure you can boot it. The instructions below apply only to computers -of IA-32 architecture, i.e. mainstream PC's. Information on "boot loading" for +do is ensure you can boot it. The instructions below apply only to computers of +IA-32 architecture, meaning mainstream PCs. Information on "boot loading" for other architectures should be available in the usual resource specific locations for those architectures.</para> @@ -39,8 +39,9 @@ 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 following example, we'll assume your root -partition is <filename>hda4</filename>.</para> +your root partition (or boot partition, if you use a separate one). For the +following example, we'll assume your root (or separate boot) 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> @@ -118,7 +119,7 @@ chainloader +1 <para>If <command>info grub</command> doesn't tell you all you want to know, you can find more information regarding Grub on its website, located at: -<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub"/>.</para> +<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/"/>.</para> </sect1> diff --git a/entities/makedev.ent b/entities/makedev.ent index 2426a9259..c1def5115 100644 --- a/entities/makedev.ent +++ b/entities/makedev.ent @@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ <!ENTITY aa-makedev-dep SYSTEM "../appendixa/makedev-dep.xml"> <!ENTITY aa-makedev-down SYSTEM "../appendixa/makedev-down.xml"> -<!ENTITY makedev-version "1.1"> -<!ENTITY makedev-depversion "1.1"> -<!ENTITY makedev-contversion "1.1"> +<!ENTITY makedev-version "1.2"> +<!ENTITY makedev-depversion "1.2"> +<!ENTITY makedev-contversion "1.2"> <!ENTITY makedev-package "Make_devices-&makedev-version;.bz2"> <!ENTITY makedev-size "20 KB"> @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" "/usr/share/docbook/docbookx.dtd" [ -<!ENTITY version "CVS-2004-02-07"> -<!ENTITY releasedate "February 7th, 2004"> +<!ENTITY version "CVS-2004-02-10"> +<!ENTITY releasedate "February 10th, 2004"> <!ENTITY milestone "5.2"> <!ENTITY nbsp " "> |