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diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 134e6a6c1..34f216f28 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ Coreutils: Only test the non-root stuff in Chapter 05, but test everything
in Chapter 06.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 21st, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Expect:
-Don't both passing anything more than --prefix=/stage1. None of it is
+Don't bother passing anything more than --prefix=/stage1. None of it is
needed.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 16th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Net-tools: Changed
@@ -225,24 +225,24 @@ Added <userinput>CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE</userinput> before
<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Basic Network:
Changed the single quotes to double quotes in the echo command. Without it,
$(hostname) won't expand which defeats the sole purpose of this command -
-to make perl's hostname check work.</para></listitem>
+to make Perl's hostname check work.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Removed all occurrences &amp;&amp;.
Updated bug syntax. Added "make check/test" where necessary in Chapter
6.</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Applied "Changing ownership"
-patch to polish the text. Closes bug #511.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06: Applied "Changing
+ownership" patch to polish the text. Closes bug #511.</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Applied "Configuring system
-components" patch to polish the text. Closes bug #510.</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06: Applied "Configuring
+system components" patch to polish the text. Closes bug #510.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06: Removed TCL, Expect
and DejaGNU. Nothing uses this once past GCC in chapter 6. The versions
in /stage1/bin do the job just fine.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Shadow:
-touch the /usr/bin/passwd file before installation. Not doing so results in
+Touching the /usr/bin/passwd file before installation. Not doing so results in
Shadow thinking passwd will be in /bin/passwd.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 13th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 06 - Installing Procps:
@@ -280,8 +280,8 @@ first place.</para></listitem>
gzip-1.3.5, and tar-1.13.25.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Perl:
-Add extra commands to build certain modules into Perl. This is to
-accomadate the Coreutils "make check". Partially fixes bug #528.</para></listitem>
+Added extra commands to build certain modules into Perl. This is to accomodate
+the Coreutils "make check". Partially fixes bug #528.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 12th, 2003 [winkie]: Chapter 05 - Installing Gzip:
Nothing in Chapter 6 checks for or uses the uncompress command,
@@ -296,8 +296,7 @@ Lfs-Utils: Removed. The only package that checks for mktemp before it is
installed is GCC, and that's only for gccbug.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added
---enable-threads=posix as well to complete the C++
-addition.</para></listitem>
+--enable-threads=posix as well to complete the C++ addition.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 11th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - GCC-2.95.3: Added
--enable-languages=c,c++ to fix that gcc's version bug with regards to
@@ -397,7 +396,7 @@ gcc and compiling zlib with -fPIC).</para></listitem>
pass2, locking glibc and adjusting toolchain): Change tooldir to /stage1
(likewise we use tooldir=/usr in chapter 6).</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chaper 05 - Kernel headers:
+<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Kernel headers:
Removed the usage of <userinput>cp -H</userinput> because there are
distributions out there that do not know about the
<userinput>-H</userinput> option.</para></listitem>
@@ -406,10 +405,10 @@ distributions out there that do not know about the
gcc-3.2.3-specs-3.patch.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Adjusting toolchain:
-Made it more architecture independant.</para></listitem>
+Made it more architecture-independent.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 10th, 2003 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Locking in Glibc:
-Made it more architecture independant.</para></listitem>
+Made it more architecture-independent.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 7th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed GCC No Debug patches. No
longer assume gcc-core and gcc-g++ packages are downloaded, so added
@@ -424,7 +423,7 @@ Newer versions just don't work properly.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 5th, 2003 [gerard]: Removed zlib installation from
chapter 5 (its inclusion was a mistake).</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>May 5th, 2003 [gerard]: Various buf fixes that were
+<listitem><para>May 5th, 2003 [gerard]: Various bug fixes that were
introduced during the pure-lfs integration.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>May 2nd, 2003 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.7.4,
diff --git a/chapter01/how.xml b/chapter01/how.xml
index 742784930..5931d1a53 100644
--- a/chapter01/how.xml
+++ b/chapter01/how.xml
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
<?dbhtml filename="how.html" dir="chapter01"?>
<para>We are going to build the LFS system by using a previously installed
-Linux distribution such as Debian, SuSE, Slackware, Mandrake, RedHat, etc.
-We will use the existing Linux system as the development platform, because
-we need tools like a compiler, linker, text editor, and other development
+Linux distribution such as Debian, SuSE, Slackware, Mandrake, or Red Hat.
+We will use this existing Linux system as a starting platform, because we
+will need tools like a compiler, linker, text editor, and other development
tools to build our system. Ordinarily, the required tools are available by
default if we selected "development" as one of our installation options
when we installed a Linux distribution.</para>