Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > In a message dated 1/26/99 10:36:52 AM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > PPP is essential if you install through a modem connection to the > > internet. PCMCIA is essential if that modem is a pcmcia card in a > > laptop. I use the ZIP drive support to save pumping floppies, but > > I only started doing this after it became necessary because I had > > to install linux on a machine with an LS120 drive (which can only > > read a floppy through the BIOS). > > I'm not sure where you got printer support from - the lpr package > > is not in the list, viz. > > > > I may be wrong about this, but don't you also need netbase to get to the net > using PPP? That wasn't installed... and as for the printer support, you're > right, lpr isn't installed, but the port drivers are...
ii ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.8 Video terminal manipulation - share... ii netbase 3.11-1 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries ii newt0.21 0.21-8 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8648 Jul 9 1998 lp.o There are 1MB of modules on the drivers floppy in modules.tgz. Removing an 8KB (uncompressed) file and a few others would have no effect on the size of base2_0.tgz which is spread over the five base disks. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.