diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml b/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml
index 90a41cc14..11c8d6b47 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc-exp.xml
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@
 null device to compile properly. All other devices will be created in the
 next section.</para>
 
-<para><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput> One of the final steps of
-the Glibc installation is running ldconfig to update the dynamic loader
-cache. If this file isn't present Glibc will abort with an error that it
-can't read the file. So we create an empty file for it (the empty file 
-will have Glibc default to using /lib and 
-/usr/lib which is fine right now).</para>
+<para><userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf</userinput> One of the final steps 
+of the Glibc installation is running ldconfig to update the dynamic loader 
+cache.  If this file doesn't exist, the installation will abort with an error 
+that it can't read the file, so we simply create an empty file (the empty file 
+will have Glibc default to using /lib and /usr/lib which is fine 
+right now).</para>
 
 <para><userinput>sed s/"\$(PERL)"/"\/usr\/bin\/perl"/
 ../glibc-2.2.3/malloc/Makefile &gt; tmp~:</userinput> This sed command
diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
index c6ed60836..2d064122b 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
@@ -36,13 +36,12 @@ would do.</para>
 *** some features will be disabled.
 *** Check the INSTALL file for required versions.</screen></blockquote>
 
-<para>This warning refers to the missing msgfmt program from the gettext
-package. But there is nothing to worry about: Glib will still be
-installed the same way as when msgfmt is present. It can safely be
-ignored in our case.</para>
+<para> This warning refers to the missing msgfmt program from the
+gettext package, but it can safely be ignored in our case.  The glibc 
+installation will not be affected.</para>
 
 <para>The last two commands make you exit and re-enter the chroot'ed 
-environment and re-entering it. This is done to get rid of the "I have
+environment. This is done to get rid of the "I have
 no name!" message in the command prompt, which was caused by bash's
 inability to resolve a userid to a username (which in turn was caused by
 the missing Glibc installation).</para>