Grant I picked up the free copy of the Oreily book and CD at The Atlanta Linux Showcase. THAT CD has the links wrong in the several .html files. I had to read the html to know what the problem was, then I copied them to /tmp then renamed them with a '.en' before the .html extension to be able to access them from index.html using any browser. I decided not to use the CD, figuring that if they got that wrong, the rest was not likely to be OK either. I borrowed a Cheap Bytes Slink CD at work.
Unless they have done a better job with their commercial CDs than they did with the freebee at ALS, then I would have to skip the CD. The book is for newbies only. It is very good for newbies, but it provided few answers to questions I had. David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux: Because the help is free, freely given, quick, and almost _always_ correct and USEFUL. Thanks folks. On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Rev GRC Sperry wrote: > * Eric G . Miller (egm2@jps.net) [000213 23:01] penned: > > 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. > > > Although we've been doing a non-official debian mirror where I work (an > ISP in Utah) for almost 2 years now, I got the New Riders book/cd set when > it came out to try to support the debian community and see if there were > some useful things in the book. Well, I didn't waste much time with the cd > as it became apparent that it was screwed but the book really didn't hit > the mark either, IMHO. > > For the same reasons, I picked up the O'reilly Debian book a few months > ago. I just want to say that, like always, O'Reilly hit the mark with that > one. The CD is a good version of Slink with some Gnome updates, it install > easily and, most importantly, browsing through the book I've learned some > things. I rarely feel like buying anything but O'Reilly books for my *NIX > needs and their Debian book is no exception. I recommend it to beginners > and intermediate Debian users alike. > > > +----------------------------------------------------+ > > | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | > | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | > > +----------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > -- > -Grant >
