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Article #177Caldera RH and SO [Newbie]
From: Art Asbury
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 00:00
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Hello First boring history then questions. I am just starting out with Linux again. Tried it about four years ago and got nowhere as there was not any good productivity software available and had never heard of the Internet. Been reading all the hype about how easy Linux is to use today so decided to try again. I purchased Caldera Base 1.2 because it had Star Office. The package loaded OK except XF86Setup would not setup my S3 Trio card and had to use X86configure. Star Office looked to be quite usable except I read in a Linux newsgroup that it only prints to a postscript printer. I also read about KDE and purchased Mandrake 5.1 (cheap $4.95) just to see it on my own screen and liked it. (a RH 5.1 dist 2.0.35 Kernel) Questions start here. Is it true that Star Office will only print to a postscript printer?? If so I guess I just wasted $89.95. The Kernel in Caldera is 2.0.33) which will not allow me to read my WIN95 partition where I downloaded the KDE package from Caldera. Error from mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win95 is vfat not supported in this kernel. Any way around this problem?? I would like to get the free upgrade to Caldera 1.3 since it comes with the KDE interface but I live in Australia and the nice things that the US customer gets never get here. I tried to run the Setup program for Star Office from the Caldera on dist on the the Mandrake (RH 5.1) system and got an error that it was unable to run setup. Any way to run the SO setup from Caldera on RH?? Long message but am looking for help Thanks on and all. Art Any way to use the
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