[SCM] UNNAMED PROJECT branch, master, updated. 20090201-1-23-g6b49020

Daniel Baumann daniel at debian.org
Sat Feb 14 20:29:42 UTC 2009


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit ce4d6bd378830a2d4e4870215da572bf9ac59493
Author: Richard Nelson <unixabg at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 13 21:47:11 2009 -0600

    Cleanup on 3.1

diff --git a/xml/chapters/basics.xml b/xml/chapters/basics.xml
index b784828..dd3cc90 100644
--- a/xml/chapters/basics.xml
+++ b/xml/chapters/basics.xml
@@ -11,28 +11,28 @@
 <section>
 <title>What is a live system?</title>
 
-<para>A live system usually means an OS booted on a computer from a removable support (as CD-ROM, USB stick, or network), ready to use without any installation on the usual drive(s), with an auto-configuration done at runtime.</para>
+<para>A live system usually means an OS booted on a computer from a removable support (as CD-ROM, USB stick, or network), ready to use without any installation on the usual drive(s), with an auto-configuration done at runtime (see <xref linkend="terms"/>).</para>
 
 <para>With Debian Live, it's a Debian GNU/Linux OS, built for one of the supported architectures (currently amd64, i386, powerpc and sparc). It is made from following parts:</para>
 
 <variablelist>
 <varlistentry>
-<term>a Linux kernel</term>
-<listitem><para>the Linux image, usually named <filename>vmlinuz*</filename>.</para></listitem>
+<term>A Linux kernel</term>
+<listitem><para>The Linux image, usually named <filename>vmlinuz*</filename>.</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 
 <varlistentry>
-<term>an initial RAM disk image (initrd)</term>
+<term>An initial RAM disk image (initrd)</term>
 <listitem><para>RAM disk setup for the Linux boot, containing modules possibly need to mount the filesystem's image and some scripts to do it.</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 
 <varlistentry>
-<term>a system image</term>
+<term>A system image</term>
 <listitem><para>The O.S. image. Debian Live uses a SquashFS image, a compressed filesystem, to minimize its size. Note that it's read-only, so during boot, the Debian Live system will uses RAM disk and 'union' mechanism to be able to write files on the system, but all modifications will be lost when shutdown, until using optional persistence partition(s) (see <xref linkend="persistence"/>).</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 
 <varlistentry>
-<term>a bootloader</term>
+<term>A bootloader</term>
 <listitem><para>A small piece of code, crafted to boot up from the chosen media, possibly proposing a prompt or menu to let select options/configuration, then loading the Linux kernel and its initrd to let it run with associated filesystem image. Different solutions can be proposed depending of the target media and fornat of filesystem containing the previous components: Isolinux to boot from a CD or DVD in ISO9660 format, syslinux for HDD or USB drive boot from a VFAT partition, GRUB for ext2/3 partition, pxelinux for PXE netboot...</para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 

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