I think you have the wrong person.
----- Original Message -----
From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] newbie rant
> 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.
>
> --
> MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> --Axalon
>
>
