I bought that very same book when I went to Debian, it's true, the cd that 
was with it was total bollocks, but the book was a gem.
and besides, pointing sources.list to potato and doing an 
apt-get dist-upgrade is a beautiful thing on a cable modem.
-T

On Wednesday 25 July 2001 17:00, you wrote:
> "Derek A. Neighbors" wrote:
> > >When I was starting out on Debian 6 months ago, this book came with an
> > >old Debian(slink?). I was told that ordering the Disks form
> > >cheapbytes(link from debian.org) was the way to go and they are less
> > >that $10. The comments on the book where okay, so you certainly are okay
> > >there.
> >
> > Hmmm... Upgraded a box here the other night from stable to testing lets
> > review:
>
> Read that it came with a non-standard version of slink and alot of
> people had bad luck with it.
>
> If you start with potato or if the disks are potato(2.2) then it is no
> problem. Having the disks, saves a ton of time for loading programs off
> the cd versus the net unless you have a big pipe.
>
> Eric
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