From ffd471a5fbf3b0c69b468ec996e5c118efaf481b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Archaic Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:47:42 +0000 Subject: Reprise of r6318. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@6334 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter07/bootscripts.xml | 4 ++-- chapter07/console.xml | 7 +++---- chapter07/network.xml | 2 +- chapter07/setclock.xml | 6 +++--- chapter07/udev.xml | 2 +- chapter07/usage.xml | 2 +- 6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter07') diff --git a/chapter07/bootscripts.xml b/chapter07/bootscripts.xml index 2024f4208..7c1004a0f 100644 --- a/chapter07/bootscripts.xml +++ b/chapter07/bootscripts.xml @@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ sets the screen font functions -Contains common functions that are used by several bootscripts, such as -error and status checking +Contains common functions, such as error and status checking, that are +used by several bootscripts functions diff --git a/chapter07/console.xml b/chapter07/console.xml index 736d1be9e..743224920 100644 --- a/chapter07/console.xml +++ b/chapter07/console.xml @@ -13,10 +13,9 @@ This section discusses how to configure the console bootscript that sets up the keyboard map and the console font. If non-ASCII -characters (British pound and Euro character are examples of non-ASCII -characters) will not be used and the keyboard is a U.S. one, skip this section. -Without the configuration file, the console bootscript will -do nothing. +characters (e.g., the British pound sign and Euro character) will not be used +and the keyboard is a U.S. one, skip this section. Without the configuration +file, the console bootscript will do nothing. The console script reads the /etc/sysconfig/console file for configuration information. diff --git a/chapter07/network.xml b/chapter07/network.xml index cd99e47cd..c45cb47aa 100644 --- a/chapter07/network.xml +++ b/chapter07/network.xml @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ the network script will bring up the Network Interface Card (NIC) during booting of the system. If set to anything but yes the NIC will be ignored by the network script and not be brought up. -The SERVICE variable defines the method used in obtaining +The SERVICE variable defines the method used for obtaining the IP address. The LFS-Bootscripts package has a modular IP assignment format, and creating additional files in the /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/services directory diff --git a/chapter07/setclock.xml b/chapter07/setclock.xml index 08c751cb4..772f2d3d3 100644 --- a/chapter07/setclock.xml +++ b/chapter07/setclock.xml @@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ clock, also known as the BIOS or the Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor hardware clock's time to the local time using the /etc/localtime file (which tells the hwclock program which timezone the user is in). There is no -way to detect whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC time, so this +way to detect whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC, so this needs to be configured manually. -If you cannot remember whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC -time, find out by running the hwclock --localtime --show +If you cannot remember whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC, +find out by running the hwclock --localtime --show command. This will display what the current time is according to the hardware clock. If this time matches whatever your watch says, then the hardware clock is set to local time. If the output from hwclock is not local diff --git a/chapter07/udev.xml b/chapter07/udev.xml index 4ec10b504..bad5795f3 100644 --- a/chapter07/udev.xml +++ b/chapter07/udev.xml @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ To solve this, the S05modules bootscript was added to the LFS-Bootscripts package, along with the /etc/sysconfig/modules file. By adding module names to the modules file, these modules will be loaded when the -computer is starts up. This allows udev to detect the devices +computer starts up. This allows udev to detect the devices and create the appropriate device nodes. Note that on slower machines or for drivers that create a lot diff --git a/chapter07/usage.xml b/chapter07/usage.xml index 9e6672d3e..3f7862daa 100644 --- a/chapter07/usage.xml +++ b/chapter07/usage.xml @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ particular Linux distribution, they should work the same in LFS too. LFS has its own way of doing things, but it respects generally accepted standards. SysVinit (which will be referred to as init from now on) -works using a run-levels scheme. There are seven (from 0 to 6) run-levels +works using a run-levels scheme. There are seven (numbered 0 to 6) run-levels (actually, there are more run-levels, but they are for special cases and are generally not used. The init manual page describes those details), and each one of those corresponds to the actions the computer is supposed to perform when it -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf