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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index d410469..2dd08f5 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ just follow the steps:
 --enable-elf-shlibs.  If you wish to build profiling libraries, add
 the option --enable-profile.
 
+	Note that if you are building on an older system (i.e., a 2.4
+kernel and/or glibc 2.2), the use of thread local storage will probably
+cause programs that use the uuid library to core dump.  To disable
+thread local storage, use the configure option --disable-tls.
+
 4)  Compile the programs
 
 	make
@@ -51,7 +56,7 @@ frequency, and the fsck pass number, respectively.  The problem with
 this is that the getmntent() library routine interprets those missing
 fields as "0", and a pass number of 0 is documented as meaning that
 fsck should not check that particular filesystem.  If your entries in
-your /etc/fstab file look liks this:
+your /etc/fstab file look like this:
 
 /dev/hda4       /        ext2        defaults