On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 10:12, Rex Johnston wrote: > Robert Fisher wrote: > > >On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 09:23, Rex Johnston wrote: > > > > > >>My advice to you is to leave the space free, grab a copy of those SuSE > >>disks, find someone who is sufficently > >>clued up to understand the guides http://www.tuxmobil.org and try > >>again. You'll probably not get the > >>printer working, but you *can* print to a file on the windoze partition > >>for later printing when booted into windoze. > >> > >>Cheers, Rex > >> > >> > > > >I successfully loaded SuSE onto a PC yesterday for Ralph. We got his Canon > >printer working fine, in fact it was auto-detected. > > > > > > Well, there you go. I'd not like to guarantee that it will work, and > SuSE has modem drivers on the 5th CD. > It could work straight out of the box. > > <rant> > > I don't mean to bitch and whine, but the small amount of Mandrake i saw > yesterday was hopeless. The nvidia > module would not load automatically on boot, god only knows where > they've hidden the kdm startup (inittab?), the > hardware detection seemed pretty average, and rpmdrake seemed to have > bits missing, like, where do you specify > the installation sources?
exactly in the menu choice under (i think) k menu|system|configuration|packaging|theres a self explanatory menu item there and there was no problem with the slmodem driver in mandrake, i did it myself on friday and also during re fest. > It should be right there as a menu option, > like on YaST, so you can unselect a network install > of some RPM, then the punters can actually *use* the disks provided > without it rushing off so some server that is > no longer available. > > Installing linux is a very time consuming job, and the brilliance of a > decent installer, like SuSE, is the sheer amount of > work that has gone into it. They've checked which version of all the > driver works with *their* kernel, and included it > with the install. > > If i'm going to go to the trouble of grabbing drivers from all over the > place, i may as well install debian. At least then i > get a whizzy package manager, and i never have to (re)install it again. > > </rant> > > I talked myself raw with one guy (Allan) who asked me heaps of decent > and pointed questions. I'm still croaky this > morning. > > Now, where did i put that flame-proof suit? > > Rex
