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From: Mark Warner on 26 Aug 2006 19:26 Daze N. Knights wrote: > > Just downloaded and did a (very) quick test drive on the PClinuxOS 0.93a > Live, and was, at least initially, rather impressed. A little slow, but > that's probably cuz it's running from CD. And none of these live distros > I've tried so far have been able to recognize my ol' HP Deskjet 950C . . > . is that par for the course? If you've got a lot of RAM (1024MB) you can chose to run it in ramdisk at the initial boot screen. Runs like a scared rabbit that way. I've never expected a live cd to detect and set up a printer automagically. Did you run the printer setup wizard? KDE is set up to work with an unbelievable number of printers; I doubt that yours isn't one of them. -- Mark Warner SimplyMEPIS 6.0 Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Mark Warner on 26 Aug 2006 19:31 Art wrote: > "humphry" <humphry(a)i.com> wrote: >> >> Things working in linux and beauty are things that linux lacked (without >> geeking around for several hours)... But this is history. PClinuxOS is >> here......! >> >> http://www.pclinuxos.com/ > > I tried this and it installed easily without hitches. However, the > machine I installed it on has a LinkSys wireless router adapter > card. The wireless network wizard (whatever it's called) smply > throws up its hands and complains that no wireless device can > be found. I knew it wouldn't work, but I tried the Windows > driver installation procedure and installer anyway. Nothing > happens when I click on Setup. It doesn't even inform me > that I'm stupid for even trying :) > > Does anyone know the scoop about a situation like this? > Maybe LinkSys has a Linux installer for its adapter cards? > Or what? Check the PCLinuxOS forums and documentation. Wireless networking in Linux is still sometimes a challenge, owing to the manufacturers not providing open source drivers. That being said, PCLOS is reputed to be the best when it comes to this, and your particular hardware can be made to work in most cases. Be prepared to use the command line a little bit. It's just part of it. -- Mark Warner SimplyMEPIS 6.0 Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: Frank Hahn on 26 Aug 2006 19:43 Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)insightbb.com> wrote in news:4lc1jbF1837nU1(a)individual.net: > I currently have four Linux distros on this machine in addition to W2K > and a big FAT32 partition I use for backups and shared files. I'm a > serial installer -- I'm all the time wiping out one partition or > another and loading up another operating system, always setting it up > in my current GrUB bootloader. Never once have I had either an install > or an update touch GrUB, except for a couple of occasions when the > installer overwrote it by default with its own version due to my > blindly clicking the Okay button. Even in those cases, my W2K > partition has always remained bootable, and restoring my preferred > version of GrUB was a simple exercise. > I have been using Linux for going on 10 years (In August, 1995, I bought a Slackware distribution on CD), and have never had a problem with any update doing anything to a Windows partition. Hard to say what happen previously. It sounds like just the entries to the Windows partition got deleted from the Grub boot file, can't think what it is called at the moment. -- Frank Hahn
From: jmatt on 26 Aug 2006 20:11 Al Smith wrote: > Try the new Freespire. It's the freeware version of Linspire. Where did you get it from Al, the main link has been "Coming Soon" for a long while. http://www.freespire.com/ Thanks, John.
From: Mark Warner on 26 Aug 2006 20:15
jmatt(a)webace.com.au wrote: > Al Smith wrote: >> Try the new Freespire. It's the freeware version of Linspire. > Where did you get it from Al, the main link has been "Coming Soon" for > a long while. > http://www.freespire.com/ http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/Download_Freespire -- Mark Warner SimplyMEPIS 6.0 Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying |