diff --git a/prologue/hostreqs.xml b/prologue/hostreqs.xml
index 4945d6fea..ab9ca4e31 100644
--- a/prologue/hostreqs.xml
+++ b/prologue/hostreqs.xml
@@ -110,13 +110,12 @@
 
   </itemizedlist>
 
-  <para>To see all the appropriate versions, copy the following script
-  to your system and run it.</para>
+  <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; version-check.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
 <literal>#!/bin/bash
 
-# Simple script to list version numbers of critical developmet tools
+# Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
 
 bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
 echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-4