Unfortunately, you got bit by the "New Riders" bug. They screwed up with the CD that comes with that book. I hear they'll ship you another CD if you contact them.
My first experience with Debian was a little less than a year ago. I got the 4CD set (2 binary, 2 source) from CheapBytes for a little under $10 US. It took me about three tries to get through the initial install, and then a couple of redos to get it configured the way I wanted. Then I moved to potato for an X that supported my video card (didn't know about Slink versions). Been a satisfied customer ever since. If you've got a decent internet connection, I'd say try the boot-floppy install for Potato (they need some willing souls to help them get the floppies ready for the next release). You'll probably want to move to it anyway, unless you need ultra stability for a critical server. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
