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diff --git a/en/install-methods/tftp/bootp.xml b/en/install-methods/tftp/bootp.xml
index 0f1fb963d..cda0f9c66 100644
--- a/en/install-methods/tftp/bootp.xml
+++ b/en/install-methods/tftp/bootp.xml
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@
<title>Setting up BOOTP server</title>
<para>
-There are two BOOTP servers available for GNU/Linux, the CMU
-<command>bootpd</command> and the other is actually a DHCP server, ISC
-<command>dhcpd</command>, which are contained in the
+There are two BOOTP servers available for GNU/Linux. The first is CMU
+<command>bootpd</command>. The other is actually a DHCP server: ISC
+<command>dhcpd</command>. In &debian; these are contained in the
<classname>bootp</classname> and <classname>dhcp</classname> packages
-in &debian;.
+respectively.
</para><para>
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ To use CMU <command>bootpd</command>, you must first uncomment (or
add) the relevant line in <filename>/etc/inetd.conf</filename>. On
&debian;, you can run <userinput>update-inetd --enable
bootps</userinput>, then <userinput>/etc/init.d/inetd
-reload</userinput> to do so. Elsewhere, the line in question should
-look like:
+reload</userinput> to do so. Just in case your BOOTP server does not
+run Debian, the line in question should look like:
<informalexample><screen>
bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd -i -t 120