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RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Linux Study Guide

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fdisk : it says linux comes with a non destructive partitioning utility
lilo : completely unclear about the different error messages.
mbr : says each disk partition will have an MBR
chapters on installation is useless.
Overall Barkakati book is hundred times useful.
Shame that I didn t know before spending money.

This book is full of mistakes and very unclear.
Here's an example.. When he introduces the POP protocol, he tells the reader that it stands for Point of Presence as opposed to Post Office Protocol, come on now. I was looking for a book to help prepare me for the RHCE, but now, I don't trust any information that comes from this book, and I would not recommend it to anyone who is even the slightest bit unfamiliar with Linux or UNIX.
Since I have worked with Linux systems, I can tell the mistakes, and there are many. It is a waste to even try to get something out of this book. I have since purchased another book, so let's see how that one does.

Please save your money.....the test questions are elementary (and the answers sometimes wrong) and the text is inconsistent. On one page, it states that a Server installation requires 2.1 GB, on another 2.4 GB, and then somewhere else, it places the figure at 1.9 GB. Which is it? I don't think I'll ever find out from this book.

It came as a surprise that such a hopeless book will be published by McGrawHill. Since I am fairly familiar with Linux ( LPI certified ), I could tell the mistakes, whenever I came across one. But I am wondering about the public there.
Also all teh topics are handled in a very shallow manner.
It is clear that the author himself does not understand well about MBR, disks, IRQ s etc.
It has all the symptoms of being written by a technician rather than a technical author.

True, maybe some of the answers are wrong (and with the Red Hat 7.2, a little dated too), plus some of the installation are probably more of the matter of opinion. However book gives you an overall view of the Red Hat distribution - its structure, it's operation and specific features that distingushed itself from other distributions and/or OSes. Although it will *NOT* teach you have to use UNIX in general (those without a UNIX background should get the RHCE Red Hat Certified Engineer Study Guide by Sybex - or even better, the Teach Yourself UNIX in 24 hours book by SAMS), it is understandable enough that it will get your started with the operating system. This book actually helped me a bit, particular with server rescues. Overall, as a companion book, I would recommend it. Otherwise, I would also buy the books I mentioned, plus a good shell and/or Perl book to round out your library.

Gives all information needed to pass the test to become a RHCE. Including the DIFFERENT class installations which require DIFFERENT amounts of disk space.