On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:20 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone used the debian CD , which comes oreilly book. > > Title of the Book is : Learning Debian GNU/Linux. > > By Bill McCarty > > Yes. > > Neither the book nor the disk are particularly good, though I managed an > install from it long, long ago. > > > The book is also online now, but can someone tell the version of > > Kernel present on the CD, which comes along with book. If the version > > is Kernel 2.4.17 based or later.Then I may buy the book for the > > sake of CD only. > > There are better sources for CDs. LinuxCentral and Cheapbytes are two > that come to mind. > > You don't *need* to install from CD, and I've done a dozen or so Debian > systems over a modem. > > I'd recommend the purchased disk route. You can find them, with > shipping, for ~$10 in the US. > > > Reason I am doing it , because it takes time to download from. > > http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=4 for i386. > > It is about 650 MB, the download speed is very low for me as bad. > > Buying the book with CD, would be a better thing. Or else I have > > to search for vendor, who has the knowledge of the kernel version,etc. > > I'd discourage your inclination. >
while i have no urge to contest anything you say here, karsten, i do think that www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html is a decent resource to offer to debian inquisitives who might be working with the delusion that purchasing a book and cd gives them an appropriate introduction to debian, particularily for those who've been, perhaps erroneously, directed to debian as a direct route from windoze to linux. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
