From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 16:37:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA20568 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:37:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA20563 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:37:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA11117; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 11:06:56 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19971129110655.64491@lemis.com> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 11:06:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: felix@royal.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Complete FreeBSD (2.2.2) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Aled Treharne on Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 02:35:51PM +0000 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Nov 28, 1997 at 02:35:51PM +0000, Aled Treharne wrote: > > I recently bought the 2.2.2 CD-set from Walnut creek, along with the > book as a package. Is this the latest version of the book? At the time you bought it, yes. > Having lent the book and cd-set to some non-unix friends, they got > rather confused, especially since the book mentions that they need > to use atapi.flp not boot.flp. How long have you been subscribed to FreeBSD-questions? More than a week? Then you should have seen the errata list that I send to the list every Monday. It tells you that atapi.flp is no longer needed. You can pick up the list from ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/cfbsd/errata-1. > Is there a new book out or in the pipeline? If I'm lucky, the final draft will be complete today, and it should be available by about Christmas. Greg