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Title: Be prepared to purchase a Linux CD elsewhere.
Review: I'm an instructor at a junior college and I used this book because it is a good book for beginning administration, except for it lacks anything on compiling the kernel, and it came with Red Hat 7.0 on 1 CD. Well, 8 out of 10 CD's my students purchased had a bad CD or Red Hat 7.0 couldn't handle the Compaq Deskpros (P300MMX 128Mb-mem ATI-Mach64-2mb-video w/IDE HD's) in my class. Eleven minutes into the installation the PC hung. I lean towards blaming the CD because we could identify a few CD's that installed fine but most would not, plus other download and publisher editions of Red Hat 7 installed fine, and Red Hat 6.2 publisher edition installed fine. One student pinned it down to a currupted RPM file but I lost the note where I had it named. The book is fine but be prepared to purchase Linux elsewhere. I won't be using this book anymore unless a new edition comes out with Red Hat 7.1 or higher and it includes kernel compiling info.
