Re: Has anyone used the debian CD , which comes oreilly book
On Thursday 25 April 2002 11:20 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, dkotian3@vsnl.net (dkotian3@vsnl.net) 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
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