[wellylug] printer install

Jonathan Harker jharker at massey.ac.nz
Wed Feb 26 09:30:16 NZDT 2003


On Wednesday 26 Feb 2003 11:17 am, Rose McGillicuddy wrote:
> Jon I should have heaps of room, it's a 10Gb partition with only Mandrake
> on it, and I haven't any data on it.  Anyway:
>
> /dev/hda5 5.3Gb  	used 3.0	avail 2.0	/
> /dev/hda7	4.2G		         41M		4.2G	/home
> /dev/hda1	8.9G			298M	8.6G	/mnt/windows
>
> It always interests me that Linux recognises Windows but not vice versa.
> No swap file, which is not making things go faster.  I don't suppose it's
> possible to create one either?
>
> Anyway - thanks
> I'll continue to muck about.
> Rose

Hi Rose,

Actually, you don't really have enough room, but that's okay. You really need 
the original install media though, especially when you add software to Linux 
or it needs to update itself with bits and pieces it didn't install by 
default (eg. your printer, missing libraries, etc). Luckily, I've got a spare 
set of Mandrake 9 CDs I can send you, and when you get them I'll walk you 
through changing the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file to update itself from the CDs.

It should look like this

Installation\ CD\ 1\ (x86)\ (cdrom1) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/ {
  hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1).cz
  with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist1.cz
  list: list.Installation CD 1 (x86) (cdrom1)
  removable: /dev/cdrom
}

Installation\ CD\ 2\ (x86)\ (cdrom2) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2/ {
  hdlist: hdlist.Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2).cz
  with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist2.cz
  list: list.Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2)
  removable: /dev/cdrom
}

International\ CD\ (x86)\ (cdrom3) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS3/ {
  hdlist: hdlist.International CD (x86) (cdrom3).cz
  with_hdlist: ../base/hdlist3.cz
  list: list.International CD (x86) (cdrom3)
  removable: /dev/cdrom
}

Wots yer address (send off-list if you like) and I'll pop them in the post...

Cheers,
Jon


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