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Grammar fixes.

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Simon Perreault 24 years ago
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      chapter02/bootscripts.xml
  2. 5 5
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chapter02/bootscripts.xml

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <title>Download the bootscripts</title>
 
 <para>
-Typing out all the bootscripts in chapters 7 and 9 can be a long tedious
+Typing out all the bootscripts in chapters 7 and 9 can be a long, tedious
 process, not to mention very error-prone.
 </para>
 

+ 5 - 5
chapter02/commands.xml

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 LFS Commands is a tarball containing files which list the installation
 commands for the packages installed in this book. These files can be
 used to dump to a shell and install the packages, though some files 
-need to be modified (for example when the console-tools package is 
-installed it is needed to select the keyboard layout file which can't be
+need to be modified (for example, when the console-tools package is 
+installed, it is needed to select the keyboard layout file, which can't be
 guessed).
 </para>
 
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ guessed).
 These files can be used to quickly find out which commands have been
 changed between the different LFS versions as well. A user just downloads the
 lfs-commands tarball for this book version and the previous book version 
-and run a diff on the files. That way it is possible to see which packages
+and runs a diff on the files. That way it is possible to see which packages
 have 
-updated installation instructions and he can modify his own scripts, or 
+updated installation instructions, and he can modify his own scripts or 
 reinstall a package if it seems necessary.
 </para>
 
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ The lfscommands can be downloaded from <ulink
 url="http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-commands/">
 http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-commands/</ulink> or <ulink
 url="ftp://download.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-commands/">
-ftp://download.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-commands/</ulink>
+ftp://download.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-commands/</ulink>.
 </para>
 
 </sect1>

+ 15 - 15
chapter02/install.xml

@@ -4,16 +4,16 @@
 <para>
 Before a user can actually start doing something with a package, he needs
 to unpack it first. Often the package files are tar'ed and
-gzip'ed. (that can determined by looking at the extension of the file.
-tar'ed and gzip'ed archives have a .tar.gz or .tgz extension, for
+gzip'ed. (That can determined by looking at the extension of the file.
+Tar'ed and gzip'ed archives have a .tar.gz or .tgz extension, for
 example.) I'm not going to write down every time how to ungzip and how 
 to untar an archive. I will tell how to do that once, in this section. 
-There is also the possibility  that a .tar.bz2 file can be downloaded.
-Such a file is tar'ed and compressed with the bzip2 program. 
+There is also the possibility that a .tar.bz2 file could be downloaded.
+Such a file would be tar'ed and compressed with the bzip2 program. 
 Bzip2 achieves a better compression than the commonly used gzip does. In 
-order to use bz2 archives the bzip2 program needs to be installed. 
-Most if not every distribution comes with this program so chances are 
-high it is already installed on the host-system. If not, it's installed using 
+order to use bz2 archives, the bzip2 program needs to be installed. 
+Most if not every distribution comes with this program, so chances are 
+high it is already installed on the host system. If not, it's installed using 
 the distribution's installation tool.
 </para>
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ running:
 <para>
 Some tar programs (most of them nowadays but not all of them) are
 slightly modified to be able to use bzip2 files directly using either
-the I or the y tar parameter which works the same as the z tar parameter
+the I or the y tar parameter, which works the same as the z tar parameter
 to handle gzip archives.
 </para>
 
@@ -70,16 +70,16 @@ If a file is just tar'ed, it is unpacked by running:
 </literallayout></blockquote>
 
 <para>
-When the archive is unpacked a new directory will be created under the
+When the archive is unpacked, a new directory will be created under the
 current directory (and this document assumes that the archives are unpacked
 under the $LFS/usr/src directory). A user has to enter that new directory
-before continuing with the installation instructions. So every time the
+before continuing with the installation instructions. So, every time the
 book is going to install a program, it's up to the user to unpack the source
 archive.
 </para>
 
 <para>
-f a file is gzip'ed, it is unpacked by running:
+If a file is gzip'ed, it is unpacked by running:
 </para>
 
 <blockquote><literallayout>
@@ -89,10 +89,10 @@ f a file is gzip'ed, it is unpacked by running:
 </literallayout></blockquote>
 
 <para>
-After a package is installed two things can be done with it. 
-Either the directory that contains the sources can be deleted 
-or it can be kept.
-If it is kept, that's fine with me. But, if the same package is needed
+After a package is installed, two things can be done with it:
+either the directory that contains the sources can be deleted,
+either it can be kept.
+If it is kept, that's fine with me, but if the same package is needed
 again in a later chapter, the directory needs to be deleted first before using
 it again. If this is not done, it might end up in trouble because old
 settings will be used (settings that apply to the normal Linux system but