Minor brush-ups, and splitting the basic-net section.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2956 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

appendixa/lfs-utils-shortdesc.xml

@@ -9,4 +9,6 @@ individual package.</para>
 <para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: mktemp, tempfile, http-get
 and iana-net</para>
 
+<para><emphasis>Installed files</emphasis>: protocols, services</para>
+
 </sect2>

chapter01/acknowledgements.xml

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Utley</ulink> &lt;jeremy@linuxfromscratch.org&gt; -- LFS Book editor, Bugzilla
 maintainer.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>Countless other people on the various LFS and BLFS
-mailinglists who are making this book happen by giving their suggestions,
+mailing lists who are making this book happen by giving their suggestions,
 testing the book and submitting bug reports, instructions and their
 experiences with installing various packages.</para></listitem>
 
@@ -242,8 +242,8 @@ moved it was renamed to <emphasis>belgarath</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
 Tie-Ten-Quee</ulink> &lt;highos@linuxfromscratch.org&gt; for donating a Yamaha
 CDRW 8824E CD-writer.</para></listitem>
 
-<listitem><para>Countless other people on the various LFS mailinglists who are
-making this book happen by giving their suggestions, submitting bug reports,
+<listitem><para>Countless other people on the various LFS mailing lists who are
+making this book better by giving their suggestions, submitting bug reports,
 and throwing in their criticism.</para></listitem>
 
 </itemizedlist>

chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -95,6 +95,12 @@
 </itemizedlist>
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>October 8th, 2003 [alex]: Chapter 8 - Making bootable: Adapted
+the style of the screens, and reworded some paragraphs.</para></listitem>
+ 
+<listitem><para>October 8th, 2003 [alex]: Removed a series of unused
+entities.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>October 7th, 2003 [jeremy]: Added notes to the linking tests
 in chapter 5 and 6 stating that blank output is a bad thing.</para></listitem>
 

chapter01/contactinfo.xml

@@ -6,21 +6,23 @@
 <sect2 id="ch01-faq">
 <title>FAQ</title>
 
-<para>If you encounter any errors, have any questions, or if you find a
-typo in the book, then, please consult the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
-page at <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/"/>.</para>
+<para>If during the building of your LFS system you encounter any errors, or
+have any questions, or think you found a typo in the book, then please first
+consult the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) at
+<ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/"/>.</para>
 
 </sect2>
 
+
 <sect2 id="ch01-irc">
 <title>IRC</title>
 
-<para>Members of the LFS community offer assistance on our community IRC
-server.  If you decide to utilize this mode of support, we ask that you
-at least ensure you've checked the LFS FAQ and the mailing list archives
-for the answer to your question.  You can find the IRC server at
-irc.linuxfromscratch.org port 6667.  The support channel is named
-#LFS-support.</para>
+<para>Several members of the LFS community offer assistance on our community
+IRC server. Before you utilize this mode of support, we ask that you've
+at least checked the LFS FAQ and the mailing list archives for the answer to
+your question.  You can find the IRC server at
+<emphasis>irc.linuxfromscratch.org</emphasis> port 6667.  The support channel
+is named #LFS-support.</para>
 
 </sect2>
 
@@ -29,7 +31,7 @@ irc.linuxfromscratch.org port 6667.  The support channel is named
 <title>Mailing lists</title>
 
 <para>The <emphasis>linuxfromscratch.org</emphasis> server is hosting a number
-of mailinglists used for the development of the LFS project. These lists
+of mailing lists used for the development of the LFS project. These lists
 include, among others, the main development and support lists.</para>
 
 <para>For information on which lists are available, how to subscribe to them,

chapter01/versions.xml

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 <title>Book version</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="version.html" dir="chapter01"?>
 
-<para>This is LFS-BOOK version &version; dated &releasedate;. If this 
-version is older than a month a newer version is probably already available 
-for download. Check one of the mirror sites below for updated
-versions.</para>
+<para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
+&releasedate;. If this book is more than two months old, a newer and better
+version is probably already available. To find out, check one of the mirrors
+listed on <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/"/>.</para>
 
 </sect1>
 

chapter04/chapter04.xml

@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@ been worked around yet.</para>
 <para>All the URLs, when possible, refer to the project's page at
 <ulink url="http://www.freshmeat.net/"/>. The Freshmeat
 pages will give you easy access to the official download sites as well as
-project websites, mailinglists, FAQs, Changelogs and more.</para>
-
-<para>We can't guarantee that these download locations are always available
-to you. 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="http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/print/"/> or try
-the alternative means of downloading given at 
+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="http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/print/"/> or, better yet, try one
+of the alternative means of downloading listed on
 <ulink url="http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/packages.html"/>.</para>
 
 <para>You'll need to store all the downloaded packages and patches somewhere

chapter06/basic-net.xml

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 <title>Setting up Basic Networking</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="basic-net.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
+<!--  Will clean this up later. -->
+
 <para>Here will be set up basic networking now that all the necessary
 software has been installed. There isn't all that much to do, really,
 just creating a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file, and downloading

chapter06/chapter06.xml

@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 &c6-gettext;
 &c6-nettools;
 &c6-inetutils;
-&c6-basic-net;
 &c6-perl;
 &c6-texinfo;
 &c6-autoconf;

chapter06/lfs-utils-inst.xml

@@ -11,5 +11,14 @@
 
 <para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
 
+<para>Now copy two supporting files included in the Lfs-Utils tarball to
+their destination:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>cp -f etc/{services,protocols} /etc</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>The <filename>/etc/services</filename> file is used to resolve service
+numbers to human-readable names, and the <filename>/etc/protocols</filename>
+does the same for protocol numbers.</para>
+
 </sect2>
 

chapter06/perl-inst.xml

@@ -18,8 +18,13 @@ above.</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
-checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the 
-following command will do so:</para>
+checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, you first
+have to create a basic <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file, needed by a
+couple of tests to resolve the name <emphasis>localhost</emphasis>:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $(hostname)" > /etc/hosts</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>Now run the tests, if you wish:</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>make test</userinput></screen></para>
 

chapter08/grub.xml

@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ 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 folowing example, we'll assume your root partition
-is <filename>hda4</filename>.</para>
+your root partition. For the following example, we'll assume your root
+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>