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 <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>
 …
 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>

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 </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>

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 <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>
 …
 <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>

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 <?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>

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 <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>

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2	2	<title>Setting up Basic Networking</title>
3	3	<?dbhtml filename="basic-net.html" dir="chapter06"?>
	4
	5	<!-- Will clean this up later. -->
4	6
5	7	<para>Here will be set up basic networking now that all the necessary

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34	34	&c6-nettools;
35	35	&c6-inetutils;
36		~~&c6-basic-net;~~
37	36	&c6-perl;
38	37	&c6-texinfo;

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 <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>

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 <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>

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 <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>

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