Has Anyone Used This Debian Book?

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

I just found this book for almost nothing at a local book discount shop:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed by Mario Camou and Aaron Von Cowenberghe

Has anyone read or used this book?  Several years ago I bought a sister book 
(same cover, same style, almost same title) for Redhat and it was the book 
that got me going on Linux and setting up my own lan (and everything else).

I figured, since I was having trouble with some hardware and a few things here 
and there, that I might start with this book and 2.1, take the time to go 
through the book and learn all the Debian specific stuff (the section on 
package management, including dselect, apt, and dpkg is 30 pages, for 
example), then change my apt sources to include Woody and upgrade the system.

If I understand apt, upgrading from 2.1 to Woody should be that simple -- is 
it?  And, when I was trying to install Woody, I booted from disc 5 instead of 
disc 1 to go with the later kernel.  Is it simple to upgrade the kernel 
later?

The other option -- I don't know how much has changed since 2.1.  I know the 
install has changed, but, other than that, would most everything else be the 
same (other than later versions of some packages)?

Thanks for any comments and opinions.

(I'm also looking at installing Knoppix on my HD and altering it, but that's 
another post...)

Hal