diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index adc97de88..e559f2029 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@
 
 </para></listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>April 25th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 Glibc: added a note
+that if you want to manually install some locales, instead of all of them,
+then you first need to create the
+<filename class="directory">/usr/lib/locale</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>April 21st,2002 [gerard & markh]: Upgraded to
 MAKEDEV-1.5</para></listitem>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
index 4b18728b7..22ae1a0ff 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,10 @@ exec /bin/bash --login</userinput></screen></para>
 localedata/install-locales</userinput> is to only install those locales
 which you need or want.  This can be achieved using the localedef
 command.  Information on this can be found in the INSTALL
-file in the glibc-&glibc-version; tree.</para>
+file in the glibc-&glibc-version; tree. One thing to note is that the
+<userinput>localedef</userinput> program assumes that the <filename
+class="directory">/usr/lib/locale</filename> exists, so you need to create
+it first.</para>
 
 <para>During the configure stage you will see the following warning:</para>