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diff --git a/chapter06/chapter06.xml b/chapter06/chapter06.xml index f97d4d777..ef78e75e7 100644 --- a/chapter06/chapter06.xml +++ b/chapter06/chapter06.xml @@ -60,23 +60,22 @@ with a series of short descriptions of these.</para> </sect1> +&c6-mountproc; <sect1 id="ch-system-chroot"> <title>Entering the chroot environment</title> <?dbhtml filename="chroot.html" dir="chapter06"?> -<para>It is time to enter the chroot environment in order to begin installing -the packages we need. Before you can chroot, however, you need to become -<emphasis>root</emphasis>, since only <emphasis>root</emphasis> -can execute the <command>chroot</command> command.</para> +<para>It is time to enter the chroot environment in order to begin building +and installing your final LFS system.</para> -<para>Just like earlier, ensure the LFS environment variable is set up properly -by running <userinput>echo $LFS</userinput> and ensuring it shows the path to -your LFS partition's mount point, which is +<para>First check, just like earlier, that the LFS environment variable is set +up properly by running <userinput>echo $LFS</userinput> and making sure it +shows the path to your LFS partition's mount point, which is <filename class="directory">/mnt/lfs</filename> if you followed our example.</para> -<para>Become <emphasis>root</emphasis> and run the following command -to enter the chroot environment:</para> +<para>As <emphasis>root</emphasis>, run the following command to enter the +chroot environment:</para> <screen><userinput>chroot $LFS /tools/bin/env -i \ HOME=/root TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \ @@ -108,12 +107,12 @@ is switched off by passing the <emphasis>+h</emphasis> option to <para>You have to make sure all the commands in the rest of this chapter and in the following chapters are run from within the chroot environment. If you ever leave this environment for any reason (rebooting for example), -you must remember to again enter chroot and mount the proc and devpts -file systems (discussed later) before continuing with the installations.</para> +you must remember to first mount the proc and devpts file systems (discussed +in the previous section) <emphasis>and</emphasis> enter chroot again before +continuing with the installations.</para> -<para>Note that the bash prompt will say "I have no name!" This is -normal, as the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file has not been -created yet.</para> +<para>Note that the bash prompt will say "I have no name!" This is normal, as +the <filename>/etc/passwd</filename> file has not been created yet.</para> </sect1> @@ -209,9 +208,6 @@ isn't precise, so we created here the directories that we think are needed.</par </sect1> -&c6-mountproc; - - <sect1 id="ch-system-createfiles"> <title>Creating essential symlinks</title> <?dbhtml filename="createfiles.html" dir="chapter06"?> |