Changeset 8b5830c for chapter03/mounting.xml

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10/18/2002 05:00:20 PM (22 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

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Applied Alex patch rewriting the chapter

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• chapter03/mounting.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter03/mounting.xml

@@ -1 +1 @@
 <sect1 id="ch04-mounting">
-<title>Mounting the new partition</title>
+<title>Mounting the new file system</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="mounting.html" dir="chapter04"?>
 
-<para>Now that we have created a file system, it is ready for use. All we have
-to do to be able to access the partition (as in reading data from and writing 
-data to) is mount it. If it is mounted under /mnt/lfs, this partition can 
-be accessed by cd'ing to the /mnt/lfs directory. This book will assume 
-that the partition was mounted under /mnt/lfs. It doesn't matter which 
-directory is chosen, just make sure you remember what you chose.</para>
+<para>Now that we've created a file system, we want to be able to access it.
+For that, we need to mount it, and have to choose a mount point.
+In this book we assume that the file system is mounted under
+<filename>/mnt/lfs</filename>, but it doesn't matter what directory
+you choose.</para>
 
-<para>Create the /mnt/lfs directory by running:</para>
+<para>Choose a mount point and assign it to the LFS environment variable
+by running:</para>
 
-<para><screen><userinput>mkdir -p /mnt/lfs</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>export LFS=/mnt/lfs</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>Now mount the LFS partition by running:</para>
+<para>Now create the mount point and mount the LFS file system by running:</para>
 
-<para><screen><userinput>mount /dev/xxx /mnt/lfs</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>mkdir -p $LFS &&
+mount /dev/xxx $LFS</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>Replace <quote>xxx</quote> by the partition's designation (like hda11).</para>
+<para>Replace <filename>xxx</filename> with the designation of the LFS
+partition.</para>
 
-<para>This directory (/mnt/lfs) is the LFS variable you have read about 
-back in Chapter 2. If you were planning to make use of the LFS environment 
-variable, <userinput>export LFS=/mnt/lfs</userinput> has to be executed 
-now.</para>
+<para>(If you decided to use multiple partitions for LFS (say one for
+<filename>/</filename> and another for <filename>/usr</filename>), mount
+them like this:</para>
 
-<para>If you decided to create multiple partitions for LFS (say $LFS and
-$LFS/usr), mount them like this:</para>
+<para><screen><userinput>mkdir -p $LFS &amp;&amp;
+mount /dev/xxx $LFS &amp;&amp;
+mkdir $LFS/usr &amp;&amp;
+mount /dev/yyy $LFS/usr</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para><screen><userinput>mkdir -p /mnt/lfs &amp;&amp;
-mount /dev/xxx /mnt/lfs &amp;&amp;
-mkdir /mnt/lfs/usr &amp;&amp;
-mount /dev/yyy /mnt/lfs/usr</userinput></screen></para>
+<para>Of course, replace <filename>xxx</filename> and <filename>yyy</filename>
+with the appropriate partition names.)</para>
 
-<para>Of course, replace /dev/xxx and /dev/yyy with the appropriate
-partition designations.</para>
+<para>Now that we've made ourselves a place to work in, we're ready to begin
+assembling the temporary tools in the next chapter.</para>
 
 </sect1>