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From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>
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Subject: Re: MOUNTING - PRINTER
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 21:21:29 +1000
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For you ffloppy look for a port called mtools (www.freebsd.org/ports)
For your printer look for apsfilter from the uri above.


On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Nicholas Lysaght wrote:
> Dear Sirs/Mesdames
> 
> I have set up my FreeBSD, with the KDE Desktop on X-Windows from the CD, on my
> Third Primary Partition. I run a P200-MMX with 32MB RAM, a Quantum Fireball
> 6.4GB HDD, A Panasonic CW-8575 R-R/W CD-ROM, Iomega ATAPI IDE ZIP-100 Drive,  A
> Hewlett Packard DeskJet 694C Printer, and ScanJet 5p Scanner.
> 
> First things first. I have installed no problems, I really like the KDE
> interface, and, even better, I'm on the Internet on BSD! One of the things I
> noticed, is that I can mount floppies and even Zip Drives from the KDE
> interface. Firstly, I've tried the floppies (3.5 & 5.25) from the interface,
> then directly from the command lin using:
> 	mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
> Unfortunately, I get the error message "Incorrect Super Block." from the
> command line, "...special file system" from the interface. Where am I going
> wrong, and where should I be looking for answers, rather than hassling you
> people? Of course, this also begs the question about my Zip Drive. "dmesg" is
> not very happy about it, describing it as "buggy", but (unlike OS/2, that sees
> it as  a Drive) can it be formatted like a floppy, and mounted to receive data?
> 
> Secondly, I have looked through the FreeBSD Manual for setting up my Printer. I
> have checked that my port works (it does), but I'm not happy about editing
> /etc/printcap yet, as there seems to be nothing that  seems (to me) to relate
> to my HP DeskJet 694C Printer. In both CommandLine and KDE interface, when I
> print, the printer works in form feed, but no lines are actually printed. Will
> I be able to print graphically, with/without colour etc?
> 
> Finally the scanner. Sane is now on my ports, but I it runs on a proprietry scsi
> card supplied by HP.  Do you think there's any chance of me getting it to work
> in BSD under Sane or something similar?
> 
> Maybe I'm rushing things a bit, but maybe, the Printer and Floppies should come
> first. I look forward to hear from you
> 
> Regards
> NICK
> 
> 
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