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Moving to Linux, Second Edition: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye! (2nd Edition) Review by J. Venis
You can't migrate to what you can't install!
[I paid $40 for a copy of this book at Barnes & Nobel. I don't know if there are different versions of this title; the one I had was labeled "Barnes & Nobel Exclusive Edition" or something like that, on its cover.]
If you are considering this book, be warned: YOU CANNOT INSTALL LINUX TO YOUR HARD DRIVE FROM THE INCLUDED CDs. There's nothing explicit on the book cover or on the CD labels to alert you to this drawback; you have to get to the bottom of page 16 in the book before the author admits it. It has been at least 20 years since anyone seriously presumed to run an operating system from removable media, and I found it completely unreasonable not to include an installable version of a FREE OS in a book about that OS -- especially one that retails for 40 bucks!
If Barnes & Noble had not agreed to take the book back -- even though I had opened the seals on the discs -- I was prepared to file a complaint with the Consumer Protection Division of my state's Attorney General's Office. I had already spoken with the AG's office and they expressed interested in the case.
If you are seriously interested in Linux, you will be better served by something you can actually install. (Try Miller's "Point and Click Linux," for instance.)