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-rw-r--r--chapter_01.xml2
-rw-r--r--chapter_02.xml14
-rw-r--r--chapter_04.xml12
4 files changed, 23 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 5e3e67e..0f0818b 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -16,8 +16,15 @@ General
in reference to how the admin might be misled into thinking that they are
causing breakage...
-Chapter 2.
-* Booting the Installer
+Chapter 2. Installation
+
+* Section 'Booting the Installer'
+
+ Does this need to be reworked? Feels kinda kludgy and amateur.
+
+* At the tail end we might wish to tell the user about adduser and
+ inform him that he can skip ahead to chapter 9 briefly if he needs
+ more info.
Chapter 4. Basic Shell Commands
diff --git a/chapter_01.xml b/chapter_01.xml
index 3dafaeb..c1e2bef 100644
--- a/chapter_01.xml
+++ b/chapter_01.xml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ the Samba project, are released under the terms of the GPL.
<para>
Another very common license is the BSD license, which is arguably "more
-free" than the GPL but imposes no restrictions on derivative works.
+free" than the GPL because it imposes no restrictions on derivative works.
The BSD license simply requires that the copyright remain intact along
with a simple disclaimer. Many of the utilities specific to Slackware
are licensed with a BSD-style license.
diff --git a/chapter_02.xml b/chapter_02.xml
index c817bf4..1a4ef26 100644
--- a/chapter_02.xml
+++ b/chapter_02.xml
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ RAM.
<title>Booting the Installer</title>
<para>
-FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN!
-FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN!
-FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN!
-FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN!
-FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN!
-FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN!
-FILL THIS IN! FILL THIS IN!
+FILL THIS IN!
+FILL THIS IN!
+FILL THIS IN!
+FILL THIS IN!
+FILL THIS IN!
+FILL THIS IN!
+FILL THIS IN!
</para>
<para>
diff --git a/chapter_04.xml b/chapter_04.xml
index 827b92f..8ffeec3 100644
--- a/chapter_04.xml
+++ b/chapter_04.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ that is what this chapter is all about.
<para>
Your Slackware Linux system comes with lots of built-in documentation
for nearly every installed application. Perhaps the most common method
-of reading system documentation is by using the
+of reading system documentation is
<application>man</application>(1). <application>man</application>
(short for manual) will bring up the included man-page for any
application, system call, configuration file, or library you tell it
@@ -279,7 +279,8 @@ unless the first two already existed, as you saw in the example.
<para>
Removing a file is as easy as creating one. The
-<application>rm</application>(1) will remove a file (assuming of course
+<application>rm</application>(1) command will remove a file
+(assuming of course
that you have permission to do this). There are a few very common
arguments to <application>rm</application>. The first is
<arg>-f</arg> and is used to force the removal of a file
@@ -342,8 +343,7 @@ order to deal with directories.
</para>
<screen><prompt>darkstar:~$ </prompt><userinput>zip -r /tmp/home.zip /home</userinput>
-<prompt>darkstar:~$ </prompt><userinput>zip /tmp/large_file.zip
-/tmp/large_file</userinput></screen>
+<prompt>darkstar:~$ </prompt><userinput>zip /tmp/large_file.zip /tmp/large_file</userinput></screen>
<para>
The order of the arguments is very important. The first filename must
@@ -423,8 +423,8 @@ One alternative to <application>gzip</application> is the
almost the exact same way. The advantage to
<application>bzip2</application> is that it boasts greater compression
strength. Unfortunately, achieving that greater compression is a slow
-process, so <application>bzip2</application> takes longer to run than
-other alternatives.
+and CPU-intensive process, so <application>bzip2</application>
+typicall takes much longer to run than other alternatives.
</para>
</section>