Changeset b8a3fb2

Timestamp:

07/02/2005 05:28:48 PM (19 years ago)

Author:

Archaic <archaic@…>

Branches:

6.1, 6.1.1

Children:

82fd24a

Parents:

b568bbaf

Message:

Reprise of r6318. (merged from trunk r6334)

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/6.1/BOOK@6338 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Location:

chapter07

Files:

• bootscripts.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• console.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• network.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• setclock.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• udev.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• usage.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter07/bootscripts.xml

@@ -81 +81 @@
 <term><command>functions</command></term>
 <listitem>
-<para>Contains common functions that are used by several bootscripts, such as
-error and status checking</para>
+<para>Contains common functions, such as error and status checking, that are
+used by several bootscripts</para>
 <indexterm zone="ch-scripts-bootscripts functions-bootscripts"><primary sortas="d-functions">functions</primary></indexterm>
 </listitem>

chapter07/console.xml

@@ -14 +14 @@
 <para>This section discusses how to configure the <command>console</command>
 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 <command>console</command> bootscript will
-do nothing.</para>
+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 <command>console</command> bootscript will do nothing.</para>
 
 <para>The <command>console</command> script reads the

chapter07/network.xml

@@ -54 +54 @@
 by the network script and not be brought up.</para>
 
-<para>The <envar>SERVICE</envar> variable defines the method used in obtaining
+<para>The <envar>SERVICE</envar> 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 <filename

chapter07/setclock.xml

@@ -18 +18 @@
 <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> file (which tells the
 <command>hwclock</command> 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.</para>
 
-<para>If you cannot remember whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC
-time, find out by running the <userinput>hwclock --localtime --show</userinput>
+<para>If you cannot remember whether or not the hardware clock is set to UTC,
+find out by running the <userinput>hwclock --localtime --show</userinput>
 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

chapter07/udev.xml

@@ -125 +125 @@
 <filename>/etc/sysconfig/modules</filename> file. By adding module names to the
 <filename>modules</filename> file, these modules will be loaded when the
-computer is starts up. This allows <command>udev</command> to detect the devices
+computer starts up. This allows <command>udev</command> to detect the devices
 and create the appropriate device nodes.</para>
 

chapter07/usage.xml

@@ -19 +19 @@
 
 <para>SysVinit (which will be referred to as <quote>init</quote> 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