Hi all >the book is available online for free (open publication license). >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html
Oops, didn't know that. Too late, now that I only bought it yesterday. But thanks for the info. Now, the problem is that the cd coming w/z the book seems broken. Will surely get that replaced tomorrow though(!) Today, I couldn't wait anymore to try debian, so I dl the necessary disks (shops are closed here today, so unable to get cd replaced immediately) from the inet, created them and installed a very minimal system. At another place, where I have access to a cable modem, I will try some bigger install, though. Seems nice, particularly the package-management tools, apt-get, dselect and so forth. :-) Had just one problem: dual-booting. This might just be slightly off-topic, so sorry. The config file looks as follows: --------- lilo.conf --------- boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 prompt image=/vmlinuz label=Linux root=/dev/hda3 read-only other=/dev/hdb1 label=win loader=/boot/chain.b table=/dev/hdb --------- lilo.conf --------- hda is where linux resides, hdb is for win. hda has various partitions, hdb has only hdb1. When booting, i select win, but it seems to hang. Using debian 2.1, dl'ed from the net. I'd be very happy to receive comments / suggestions. Cheers. Sven
