On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 07:20, 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. UK users are probably better served by http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/ Also note that John gives away (i.e. you pay shipping, but that's all) old versions of CDs. > You don't *need* to install from CD, and I've done a dozen or so Debian > systems over a modem. However, the base2_2.tgz file is nice to have on CD - I had a severe "bad floppy" evening one night installing onto a laptop. I dd'ed the same four floppies for all the images :\ Take care Peter. -- Peter Whysall peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
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