diff --git a/chapter06/chapter06.xml b/chapter06/chapter06.xml
index 44ec75c9e..53073c013 100644
--- a/chapter06/chapter06.xml
+++ b/chapter06/chapter06.xml
@@ -67,15 +67,9 @@ with a series of short descriptions of these.</para>
 <?dbhtml filename="chroot.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
 <para>It is time to enter the chroot environment in order to begin building
-and installing your final LFS system.</para>
-
-<para>First check, just like earlier, that the LFS environment variable is set
-up properly by running <userinput>echo $LFS</userinput> and making sure it
-shows the path to your LFS partition's mount point, which is
-<filename class="directory">/mnt/lfs</filename> if you followed our example.</para>
-
-<para>As <emphasis>root</emphasis>, run the following command to enter the
-chroot environment:</para>
+and installing your final LFS system. Still as <emphasis>root</emphasis> run
+the following command to enter the small world that is, at the moment,
+populated with only the temporary tools:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>chroot $LFS /tools/bin/env -i \
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;HOME=/root TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \
diff --git a/chapter06/mountproc.xml b/chapter06/mountproc.xml
index d1d91d9c1..381786f57 100644
--- a/chapter06/mountproc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/mountproc.xml
@@ -9,31 +9,35 @@ can be mounted as many times and in as many places as you like, thus it's not a
 problem that these file systems are already mounted on your host system,
 especially so because they are virtual file systems.</para>
 
-<para>First you need to become <emphasis>root</emphasis>, since probably only
-<emphasis>root</emphasis> can mount these file systems.</para>
+<para>First make the mount points for these filesystems:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>mkdir -p $LFS/{proc,dev/pts}</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Now become <emphasis>root</emphasis>, since only
+<emphasis>root</emphasis> can mount file systems in unusual places. Then
+check again that the LFS environment variable is set correctly by running 
+<userinput>echo $LFS</userinput> and making sure it shows the path to your LFS
+partition's mount point, which is <filename
+class="directory">/mnt/lfs</filename> if you followed our example.</para>
 
 <para>The <emphasis>proc</emphasis> file system is the process information
 pseudo file system through which the kernel provides information about the
-status of the system. Mount it on <filename class="directory">/proc</filename>
-with:</para>
+status of the system. Mount it with:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>mount proc /proc -t proc</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>mount proc $LFS/proc -t proc</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>The <emphasis>devpts</emphasis> file system was mentioned earlier and is
-now the most common way for pseudo terminals (PTYs) to be implemented.</para>
+<para>The <emphasis>devpts</emphasis> file system is now the most common way
+for pseudo terminals (PTYs) to be implemented. Mount it with:</para>
 
-<para>The devpts file system is mounted on 
-<filename class="directory">/dev/pts</filename> by running:</para>
+<screen><userinput>mount devpts $LFS/dev/pts -t devpts</userinput></screen>
 
-<screen><userinput>mount devpts /dev/pts -t devpts</userinput></screen>
-
-<para>Should this command fail with an error to the effect of:</para>
+<para>This last command might fail with an error to the effect of:</para>
 
 <blockquote><screen>filesystem devpts not supported by kernel</screen></blockquote>
 
-<para>The most likely cause is that your host system's kernel was compiled
-without support for the devpts file system. You can check which file systems
-your kernel supports by peeking into its internals with a command such as
+<para>The most likely cause for this is that your host system's kernel was
+compiled without support for the devpts file system. You can check which file
+systems your kernel supports by peeking into its internals with
 <command>cat /proc/filesystems</command>. If a file system type named
 <emphasis>devfs</emphasis> is listed there, then we'll be able to work around
 the problem by mounting the host's devfs file system on top of the new