diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/NFS-Root.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/NFS-Root.sgml
index 4fc42da4..911ff9e7 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/NFS-Root.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/NFS-Root.sgml
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ important points:
 
 <item> One important thing is eth0 setup. The workstation comes up
 with eth0 set up, at least partially. Setting the
-IP address of the workstation to the the IP address of the server
+IP address of the workstation to the IP address of the server
 is not considered a clever thing to do. (As it happened to the original author
 on one of his early attempts.)