diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 72b36520a..c18325eeb 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
 </itemizedlist>
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>November 18, 2005 [manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the
+module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>November 16, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning
 gettext in chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para></listitem>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml b/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
index 699f1a85b..ee9e9ea1c 100644
--- a/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
+++ b/chapter06/module-init-tools.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ perform the tests (note that the <command>make distclean</command> command is
 required to clean up the source tree, as the source gets recompiled as part of
 the testing process):</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>tar -xvf ../module-init-tools-testsuite-&module-init-tools-version;.tar.bz2 &amp;&amp;
+<screen><userinput>tar -xvf ../module-init-tools-testsuite-&module-init-tools-version;.tar.bz2 --strip-path=1 &amp;&amp;
 ./configure &amp;&amp;
 make check &amp;&amp;
 make distclean</userinput></screen>