On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> salutations
>
> i am a new person to linux i want to state that i may be a slow learner but i
> do not believe i am brain dead. here are my problems.
>
> 1. when using my redhat 5.2 system at installation it recognizes my par-port
> iomega zip and there is no problems. when installing mandrake 6.0 the iomega
> is not seen. so i follow both the kernel howto and the zip howto to no
> avail.
>
Have you tried:
modprobe ppa
If so, what happens?
>
> 2. when using redhat 5.2 i can mount floppies with no problem but with
> mandrake 6.0 i get the "wrong fs,bad header, to many mounted , blahblah" or
> "not a valid block device"
>
You have to specify the filesystem type when mounting
floppies.
> 4. we use an intranet package "ocs" from www.obsidian.co.za which works fine
> on rh 5.2 but try to install in mandrake and i get a failed dependancy error
> redhat 5.0=>
>
Probably expecting different C libraries. See if there's a
newer version. If this is for dialing into the internet,
you don't need it. Mandrake has internet dial-up already.
It's called KPPP.
>
> i really liked my rh 5.2 system and i had
> been using the kde system with it, > so when i decided to
> upgrade the kernel and os i chose the integrated >
> simplicity of mandrake. now i feel it will be easier to
> return to rh 5.2 and > then upgrade from there. >
> if anyone would like to tackle the issues as to why there is such an
> integration problem with mandrake i would sincerely appreciate the guidance.
>
There have been a LOT of changes to Linux since RH 5.2.
Even RH 6.0 isn't fully compatible with RH5.2. There have
been path changes and such to where things are stored. For
example, with KDE -- KDE under RH5.2 was in /opt/kde. Now
it's in /usr. Also, Mandrake6.x (and RH 6.x) use a
different version of the C library than 5.2. You might try
checking out the site www.mandrakeuser.org and see if there
might be some help there beyond the short suggestions I had.
John
