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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 0c3d463..2dd08f5 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -11,10 +11,14 @@ just follow the steps:
 
 	../configure
 
-	If you wish to turn on DLL shared libraries, add the option
-flag --enable-dll-shlibs.  If you wish to turn on ELF shared
-libraries, add the option --enable-elf-shlibs.  If you wish to build
-profiling libraries, add the option --enable-profile.
+	If you wish to turn on ELF shared libraries, add the option
+--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
 
@@ -52,7 +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