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Caldera RH and SO [Newbie]

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From: Art Asbury
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

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From: sets@gil.com.au (Art Asbury)
Subject: Caldera RH and SO [Newbie]
Date: 1998/10/08
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