diff --git a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
index 8a10e1db0..c83cd5779 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc-inst.xml
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
 
 <para>
-Once glibc has been unpacked as usual, unpack glibc-linuxthreads inside
-the glibc-&glibc-version; directory, not in /usr/src
+Once glibc has been unpacked as usual and you have cd'ed into the
+glibc-&glibc-version; directory, unpack glibc-linuxthreads inside
+the glibc-&glibc-version; directory, not in /usr/src as you normally
+would do.
 </para>
 
 <para>
@@ -14,8 +16,8 @@ Install Glibc by running the following commands:
 <screen>
 <userinput>mknod -m 0666 /dev/null c 1 3 &amp;&amp;</userinput>
 <userinput>touch /etc/ld.so.conf &amp;&amp;</userinput>
-<userinput>mkdir /usr/src/glibc-build &amp;&amp;</userinput>
-<userinput>cd /usr/src/glibc-build &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+<userinput>mkdir ../glibc-build &amp;&amp;</userinput>
+<userinput>cd ../glibc-build &amp;&amp;</userinput>
 <userinput>sed s/"\$(PERL)"/"\/usr\/bin\/perl"/ \</userinput>
 <userinput>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;../glibc-&glibc-version;/malloc/Makefile &gt; tmp~ &amp;&amp;</userinput>
 <userinput>mv tmp~ ../glibc-&glibc-version;/malloc/Makefile &amp;&amp;</userinput>