One caveat before I begin the review. I haven't read every word on every page. That isn't the intent of a reference book, so I don't feel bad about the holes in this review. My goal is to describe the flavor of this recipe, so that you can decide whether you want to taste it yourself. This is a multi-author book, and it shows perhaps a bit more than the editors would have liked.
Styles vary from friendly, first-person chatty to somewhat dry tutorial prose.
It is written assuming that the reader has at least a casual familiarity with PCs and their operating systems. A lot of the most interesting stuff in the book appears within these boxes. All in all, the book is very clear and readable. This chapter alone is almost worth the price of the book. It leads the reader, step by careful step, through the entire installation process, with plenty of explanations about options.