diff --git a/docs/source/advanced/kit/custom/build/buildkit-rpm.rst b/docs/source/advanced/kit/custom/build/buildkit-rpm.rst
index 263f135a9..5cbc271ed 100644
--- a/docs/source/advanced/kit/custom/build/buildkit-rpm.rst
+++ b/docs/source/advanced/kit/custom/build/buildkit-rpm.rst
@@ -1,26 +1,22 @@
-Installing the xCAT-buildkit
------------------------------
+Requirements
+============
 
-The xCAT-buildkit RPM is required to build a kit.  It will be installed automatically as part of installing base xCAT. If the build server is not an xCAT management node, it can be
+The ``xCAT-buildkit`` rpm is required to create xCAT Software Kits.  This rpm should be installed along with the rest of xCAT.
 
-    #. Download the xCAT tar file and install the xCAT-buildkit RPM from the local repositroy
-    #. Install the RPM directly from the internet-hosted repository
+If the xCAT management node is not intended to be used to build the Software Kit, refer to the :doc:`Install Guide </guides/install-guides/index>` to configure the xCAT repository on the target node and install ``xCAT-buildkit`` using one of the following commands:
 
-Once the repositories are setup, install xCAT-buildkit and all its dependencies.
-
-**[RHEL]** ::
+* **[RHEL]** ::
 
    yum clean metadata
    yum install xCAT-buildkit
 
-**[SLES]** ::
+* **[SLES]** ::
 
-  zypper clean
-  zypper install xCAT-buildkit
+   zypper clean
+   zypper install xCAT-buildkit
 
+* **[UBUNTU]** ::
 
-**[UBUNTU]** ::
-
-  apt-get clean
-  apt-get install xcat-buildkit
+   apt-get clean
+   apt-get install xcat-buildkit
 
diff --git a/docs/source/advanced/kit/custom/build/validatekit.rst b/docs/source/advanced/kit/custom/build/validatekit.rst
index 01b6633d7..ea2f108ec 100644
--- a/docs/source/advanced/kit/custom/build/validatekit.rst
+++ b/docs/source/advanced/kit/custom/build/validatekit.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-Validating the Kit Configuration
---------------------------------
+Validating Kits
+---------------
 
-After modify the buildkit.conf file and copy all necessary files to the kit directories, use the ``chkconfig`` subcommand to validate the build configuration file.  ::
+After modifying the ``buildkit.conf`` file and copying all the necessary files to the kit directories, use the ``chkconfig`` option on :doc:`buildkit </guides/admin-guides/references/man1/buildkit.1>` to validate the configuration file:  ::
 
-  buildkit chkconfig
+    buildkit chkconfig
 
-This command will verify all required fields defined in the buildkit.conf, included all internally referenced attributes and all referenced files.
+This command will verify all required fields defined in the buildkit.conf.  If errors are found, fix the specified error and rerun the command until all fields are validated. 
 
-Fix any errors then rerun this command until all the fields are validated.