On 30 Dec 1999, William Temple 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.
are you useing the supplied imm or ppa module, they both work you just
need to know which drive you have.
> 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"
specify the fs type on the command line if "auto" doesn't work for the
disk.
> 3. my wife does graphics work and i would like my wacom sd420e digitizer and
> ati ati-tv wonder video capture board to work.
wacom tablets have an Xfree86 module, it's included. The project
developing facilities for ATI is named gatos, and i package fresh cvs all
the time, it is included in atleast 6.1 and i don't remeber if it's in 6.0
you'll have to look and see.
> 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=>
This is a problem with their package ask them to fix it, if they need any
help I'll be more then happy to do so.
> 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.
Good luck on that libc5 -> glibc ...
> 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.
I see one minor problem, one lack of information, and a little
mis-information.
> thanks in advance
> bill temple
If you really must go back to libc5 (for ocs) You may find linux-mandrake
5.3 a little bit of a time saver.
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--Axalon
