[SCM] UNNAMED PROJECT branch, master, updated. 20090201-1-26-gf563b5a

Daniel Baumann daniel at debian.org
Tue Feb 17 19:53:09 UTC 2009


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 21789d2dbea1b2e9397d1be8ab90aa855c1a1969
Author: Richard Nelson <unixabg at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 17 13:14:34 2009 -0600

    Cleanup on 3.2 and 3.3

diff --git a/xml/chapters/basics.xml b/xml/chapters/basics.xml
index 18a71e3..0c06d67 100644
--- a/xml/chapters/basics.xml
+++ b/xml/chapters/basics.xml
@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@
 <section>
 <title>First steps: building an ISO image</title>
 
-<para>The following sequence of commands will create a basic ISO image containing just the Debian standard system without X.org. It is suitable for burning to CD or DVD media.</para>
-<para>First, we must configure our Live system:</para>
+<para>The following sequence of helper commands, provided by &live-helper;, will create a basic ISO image containing just the Debian standard system without X.org. It is suitable for burning to CD or DVD media.</para>
+<para>First, we run the <filename>lh_config</filename> helper which will create a <filename>"config/"</filename> hierarchy in the current directory for use by other helper commands:</para>
 <screen>$ lh_config</screen>
-<para>Passing no parameters indicated that we wish to use the default binary image type. You will see that &live-helper; created a <filename>"config/"</filename> hierarchy in your current directory - this is used by the rest of &live-helper; to build your live image.</para>
-<para>We can then build the image with <filename>lh_build</filename> as root:</para>
+<para>By passing no parameters to <filename>lh_config</filename>, we indicated that we wish to use the defaults, which will create an image of type binary (see <xref linkend="lh_config"/>).</para>
+<para>Now that we have a <filename>"config/"</filename> hierarchy, we may build the image with <filename>lh_build</filename> helper:</para>
 <screen># lh_build</screen>
-<para>This process can take a while, depending on the speed of your network connection.</para>
+<para>This process can take a while, depending on the speed of your network connection (see <xref linkend="lh_build"/>).</para>
 
 <section>
 <title>Testing an ISO image with Qemu</title>
@@ -76,12 +76,12 @@ $ wodim binary.iso
 <section>
 <title>Building an USB/HDD image</title>
 
-<para>The following sequence of commands will create a basic USB/HDD image containing just the Debian standard system without X.org. It is suitable for booting from USB sticks, hard drives and various other portable storage devices.</para>
-<para>Note if an iso image had been previously built, you will need to clean live-helper:</para>
+<para>The following sequence of helper commands will create a basic USB/HDD image containing just the Debian standard system without X.org. It is suitable for booting from USB sticks, USB hard drives, and various other portable storage devices.</para>
+<para>Note if you created an iso image with the previous example, you will need to clean up your working directory with the <filename>lh_clean</filename> helper (see <xref linkend="lh_clean"/>):</para>
 <screen>$ lh_clean --binary</screen>
-<para>First, we must configure &live-helper; to create a USD/HDD image type:</para>
+<para>First, we run the <filename>lh_config</filename> helper with the parameters to configure the <filename>"config/"</filename> hierarchy to create a USD/HDD image type:</para>
 <screen>$ lh_config -b usb-hdd</screen>
-<para>We can then build the image with <filename>lh_build</filename> as root:</para>
+<para>We can then build the image with <filename>lh_build</filename> helper:</para>
 <screen># lh_build</screen>
 
 <section>

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