> > I find the RHEL Deployment Guide very helpful in this regard. > > Sorry. I don't have the link handy at the moment but it's available > > on the RH website.HTH. > > yes, i've already bookmarked those. i was curious in that there are > some deployment guides at the centos site: > > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/ > > but they stop at 5.2. any reason for that? > > rday > -- That issue was discussed on this list in the recent past. Don't recall the answer. I have no difficulty in using the RH guide since CentOS strives to be binary compatible with RHEL. There is a textbook, Linux:The Textbook,published by Addison Wesley, which is used in the local college in the AA program but it is generic and somewhat out of date:circa 2002. B.J. CentOS 5.4, Linux 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5 x86_64 11:25:02 up 10 days, 22:04, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.05, 0.08