Learning Red Hat Linux, 2nd Edition 
A Guide to Red Hat Linux for New Users

By Bill McCarty

This errata page lists errors outstanding in the most recent printing.

If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to
booktech@oreilly.com.  Please specify the printing date of your copy.

This page was updated January 06, 2003.


Here's a key to the markup:
	[page-number]: serious technical mistake
	{page-number}: minor technical mistake
	<page-number>: important language/formatting problem
	(page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
	?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification



Confirmed errors:


[31]  "Creating a Boot Floppy";

Step 5 reads:
5) In the command window, type cd \dosutils\rawrite to switch to that directory on 
the CD and press Enter.

Step 5 should read:
5) In the command window, type cd \dosutils to switch to that directory on the CD
and press Enter. (added text) You can now type rawrite.

rawrite is an application not a directory.

****************

Step 6 reads:
6) When prompted, specify the filename of the disk image source as images\boot.img
and press Enter.

Step 6 should read:
6) When prompted, specify the filename of the disk image source as ..\images\boot.img
and press Enter.

The use of the relative path is wrong and should be set to use an absolute path to
boot.img. This text implies that the boot.img is under (d:)\dosutils\images\ not
(d:)\images.


[191-239]  General;
Chapters 11 & 12.

Default firewall config needs to be changed to enable SAMBA and internet services to
run over a local network.

Admittedly I skipped to the SAMBA section first so may have missed this in preceding
chapters, but it would have been useful to have it mentioned in either of these
sections.

AUTHOR: The reader's understanding of the facts is correct. That is, if host is
running a firewall in default configuration, remote clients cannot
access services on the host.

I don't see this as an error. But, as the reader writes, it would be
helpful to remind the reader of this possibility. A suitable place
would have been the section titled "Troubleshooting Samba," appearing
on p. 214.