on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? SBC PacBell: The phone is once again your fiend. http://www.consumernet.org/turn/body_pacbell_monopoly.shtml
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