On Monday 04 August 2008 21:06, Mark Allums wrote: > Vwaju wrote: > > Thanks, Robert! > > > > I downloaded Contents-i386.gz from http://ftp.debian.org/dists/sarge/. > > > > As I understand it, this is not an archive, but a single compressed > > file. I gunzipped it, which yields an 111MB file. > > > > I am not sure what I have now. If this is sarge, how do I install it? > > > > Dan -- > > > > Linux System Administration (O'reilly) is a cookbook how-to for > > teaching Linux networking by builiding an internet server. It was > > written when sarge was the current version of Debian. Unfortunately, > > because of many changes between sarge and etch, the book seems to be > > just about useless unless your running sarge. ( Unless, of course, you > > already know how to build a Linux network server, but then why would > > you do the project at all?) > > Do I need to say it? Get a better book! :) Seriously, anything very > out-of-date will teach you some bad habits. Security stuff, in > particular. Amazon lists used books, try them. Or, if you boycott > Amazon for good and sufficient reasons, try http://www.nerdbooks.com/ .
I repeat the above. Don't use "old" software in this regard. > > Mark Allums -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
