From 4e629074ec07d0f8f4de48abd277e84f4d3188cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Schafer Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 08:56:39 +0000 Subject: Miscellaneous fixes from the list. Thanks Bruce. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2921 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter03/creatingfs.xml | 2 +- chapter05/introduction.xml | 10 +++++----- chapter06/chroot.xml | 4 ++-- chapter06/gzip-inst.xml | 2 +- 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapter03/creatingfs.xml b/chapter03/creatingfs.xml index ecfab9206..541869158 100644 --- a/chapter03/creatingfs.xml +++ b/chapter03/creatingfs.xml @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Creating a file system on the new partition -Now the partition has been made, we can create a file system on it. +Now that we have a blank partition, we can create a file system on it. Most widely used in the Linux world is the second extended file system (ext2), but with the high-capacity hard disks of today the so-called journaling file systems are becoming increasingly popular. Here we will create an ext2 file diff --git a/chapter05/introduction.xml b/chapter05/introduction.xml index c8e04a1d7..faf94c045 100644 --- a/chapter05/introduction.xml +++ b/chapter05/introduction.xml @@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ linker and libraries), and then use this to build all the other essential tools. The files compiled in this chapter will be installed under the -$LFS/tools directory, +$LFS/tools directory to keep them separate from the files installed in the next chapter. Since the packages compiled here are merely temporary, we don't want them to pollute the soon-to-be LFS system. The key to learning what makes a Linux system work is to know -what each package is used for, why the user or the system needs it. +what each package is used for and why the user or the system needs it. For this purpose a short summary of the content of each package is given before the actual installation instructions. For a short description of each program in a package, please refer to the corresponding section in @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ each program in a package, please refer to the corresponding section in Several of the packages are patched before compilation, but only when the patch is needed to circumvent a problem. Often the patch is needed in -both this and the next chapter, but sometimes in only one of them. So, don't -worry when instructions for a downloaded patch seem to be missing. +both this and the next chapter, but sometimes in only one of them. Therefore, +don't worry when instructions for a downloaded patch seem to be missing. During the installation of most packages you will see all kinds of compiler warnings scroll by on your screen. These are @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ syntax. It's just that C standards have changed rather often and some packages still use the older standard, which is not really a problem. Before continuing, make sure the LFS environment variable is set up -properly (if you decided to make use of it) by executing the following: +properly by executing the following: echo $LFS diff --git a/chapter06/chroot.xml b/chapter06/chroot.xml index 71df04e4c..4a1fb5d1c 100644 --- a/chapter06/chroot.xml +++ b/chapter06/chroot.xml @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ the packages we need. Before you can chroot, however, you need to become can execute the chroot command. Just like earlier, ensure the LFS environment variable is set up properly -(if you decided to make use of it) by running echo $LFS -and ensuring it shows the path to your LFS partition's mount point, which is +by running echo $LFS and ensuring it shows the path to +your LFS partition's mount point, which is /mnt/lfs if you followed our example. diff --git a/chapter06/gzip-inst.xml b/chapter06/gzip-inst.xml index f03414c60..0bcfbff3b 100644 --- a/chapter06/gzip-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/gzip-inst.xml @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ ./configure --prefix=/usr -The gzexe program has the location of the gzip binary hardcoded into +The gzexe program has the location of the gzip binary hard-wired into it. Because we later change the location of this binary, the following command will place the new location into the gzexe binary. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf