Learning Red Hat Linux

So far I've found the book only "somewhat" useful and like most Installing Linux books, it starts off with some terrible (contradictory) advice when it comes to partitioning. For example, the author states in Chapter 2: "...

To answer below reviewer Xavier Velasco H., question " I wonder if it would just have been swell to start with O'Reilly's Running Linux.

This book is meant to literally take your hand so you can be walked from Gates to Tornvals with no pain, but in the end you have to go RTFM, just because the book is plenty of errata and falls into tricky omissions. You can have a damn hard time installing the system if anything does not go just like the book says.