Re: Newbie's experience Installing Debian
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
dbt@cs.wcu.edu
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.
>
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> > | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net |
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> >
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> -Grant
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