What is the best book for a beginner installing Mandrake 10.1.

[morningglory]

I am a sophistocated DOS and Unix user. This will be my first time with Linux. Thanks in advance for any help.

[Todd B]

1. I love the O'Reilly series, personally.

Have you tried the O'Reilly series? I think they are the most well written for any computer subject - check out "Running Linux". It gives a nice background in to administrative functions, installation, and general knowledge.

Have you also considered Fedora by Redhat? It's a really nice OS that is very simple to install, too. Either way though, try that book out - it was very helpful and interesting.

[dave502d]

2. I install 9.0 without a book.If you know DOS forget the book.n/t

[BornLeft]

3. Well, Mandrake has really

become idiot proof. Getting it installed should be a piece of cake. I use 2005 Limited Edition 64 bit. My install experience was nice. All straight forward and simple.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. I am a long-time Mandrake(Mandriva) user.

Unless you need the something particular to Mandrake 10.1. please: make the effort and DL Mandriva 2005LE. I am running it here on an AMD64/Gigabyte motherboard combination and it is impressively feature-packed and stable. Just wonderful. I would go so far as to recommend you join Mandriva Club(http://www.mandrivaclub.com). The cost of joining will give you tons of support, access to downloading the "Powerpack" CD and DVD isos and lots of extra software goodies.

It's worth it.

[morningglory]

5. Thanks, you all! You are the greatest! n/t