diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Optical-Disk-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Optical-Disk-HOWTO.sgml
index eae28ed8..34a1e448 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Optical-Disk-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Optical-Disk-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ SCSI interface.
 Drives used: several, no problems encountered (Olympus, Epson, currently
 Mitsubishi MK230LK3). Drives may have strange jumper setting like "Mac
 Mode" or such - naturally, disable. 
-If you decide to get a drive, pay attention the the
+If you decide to get a drive, pay attention to the
 cache size - It can speed things up enormously, still speed will be
 soso compared to hard disks, of course. 
 
@@ -1567,7 +1567,7 @@ Alexander Voropay
 <p>
 I have no experience with optical jukeboxes with Linux!!!!
 I have had experiences with Optical jukeboxes under HP-UX. In this
-setup the the jukebox had a SCSI address of it's own. Each slot in 
+setup the jukebox had a SCSI address of it's own. Each slot in 
 the jukebox had an associated LUN number. A device name was assigned
 for each disk slot A side and B side. The mount command was run against
 the appropriate device name. I had a jukebox with just one drive and
@@ -2097,7 +2097,7 @@ I tried Jeff's suggestion. Here are the steps I performed;
 <item>Modify my kernel using "make xconfig" in the /usr/src/linux directory 
 and installed it. 
 <item>Change the mode jumper on the PD drive to non-DOS mode. I soldered
-a switch across the mode jumper connections and routed it the the
+a switch across the mode jumper connections and routed it to the
 back panel. I figured out which switch position was the open position
 and labeled this one for DOS.  The other position is of course Linux.
 So before I boot my system I decide which OS I'll be using and set the