Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:06:57 +0800 From: Nicholas Lysaght <nlysaght@one.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: MOUNTING - PRINTER Message-ID: <00062213403300.00275@myname.my.domain>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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