[TriLUG] Mandrake install problems:)

[Tanner Lovelace]

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Hi Tom,

Tom Anderson Jr wrote:
| So, now we have Mandrake back on.  Still no printer or zip drive. Here
| is what I did and found.  First from www.linuxprinter.org
| <http://www.linuxprinter.org> I read that with no printer install you
| have no chance of using the zip drive that is plugged in between the
| parallel port on the cpu and the HP 4.

What do you mean here?  I have a Zip drive hooked to my printer port
on my mandrake 9.1 box with no printer attached and it works perfectly
fine.

[...]
| I bought these disk at the hamfest a few months ago when trilug was
| there.  Could that be the problem? These disk? Or is it a short between
| the keyboard and the back of my chair?

It's possible that the disks are bad.  Might I suggest doing the
following (as root):

urpmi.removemedia -a

Then, go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ follow the directions
there, and then copy what it gives you in section 3 to the console as
root.  That will setup urpmi to work from a network repository.

After doing that, try running printerdrake again and it should be able
to find the necessary files.

| I stop now.  But any advice would be of help.  Please send e-mail to
| teajr at yahoo.com <mailto:teajr at yahoo.com>. And thanks in advance.  I
| may be there at this coming Thursday meeting?

Please do come to the meeting.  It's a good place to meet people
who probably know the answer to any question you might have.
(And, we have free pizza. :-)

Cheers,
Tanner
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