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Old August 3rd, 2004, 11:00 AM
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I bought "Beginning Fedora 2" and on page 13, it says to see an advisory at www.wrox.com. The advisory concerns a bug that could corrupt the MBR on dual boot setups. Well, it's a big website. My question is WHERE on this website might this advisory be? I can't seem to locate it. It would have been helpful if the book had been a little more specific. Any suggestions on where I can find this advisory?

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Old August 11th, 2004, 11:10 AM
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Did you go to the home page for the book? On that page is a link for "Download Code". On the Download code page is the information your looking for,


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Old August 31st, 2004, 11:55 AM
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thanx for the tip, how about a link next time?!
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This may come as a suprise to you but not all of us are quite up to speed with code yet. Just the same a bug advisory could be a very interesting help topic for those of us so code challenged enough to request assistance. I am not exactly a newby to Linux but I bought the book in anticipation of learning a few trix, solving a few issues, getting up to speed, and most importantly finding a way to give back to the community.
  Areas of interest include but are not limited to: making Red Hat /Fedora coexist (Dual, tri, quad Boot) not just with Window$ products but otherOS's like Free BSD or competing Linux Distros such as Suse. Other high priority subjects might be making NVidia FX drivers work, modifying existing drivers for similar hardware such as a Wifi card. While I have self denigrated myself as code challenged I do get lots of oportunities to professionally interface with programers who are often just as Technically challenged but in other areas, such that we often are ableto overcome our differences long enough to actually get some work done on stuff like porting Telephony from proprietary to Open Source especially Windblow$ to Linuckx, pardon my french.
  Anyway thanx for this opportunity to make myself a mark, er get acquainted, nowback to work testing and evaluating Telephony scripts. Any feedback comments, tips, docs, faqs to point at would be greatly appreciated.
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Old August 31st, 2004, 01:55 PM
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dcorrell - Why provide a link to something that already is linked to? I am not your personal assistant. I'll be happy to give you pointers- I will not do work for you. See that lovely link at the top "Browse books".. go there and go to the book your looking for.. it's pretty straight forward. As to your second post, I don't see how it's relevant to the discussion on where an advisory is located.

Good luck in your areas of interest- have fun insulting every Operating system and methodology out there- that's a way to make friends and infuence people!


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