I'm New Here, if Fedora 3 is a more capable OS than XP why........
cant' I use it? I am new to computers, I have an old HP 233, with a 60 gig hard drive, 192 mb of ram, and yes, I know I could use a new machine, but this has been inexpensive to learn on! I had 98SE on this machine originally, but it kept crashing.
cant' I use it?
I am new to computers, I have an old HP 233, with a 60 gig hard drive, 192 mb of ram, and yes, I know I could use a new machine, but this has been inexpensive to learn on! I had 98SE on this machine originally, but it kept crashing. So I got frustrated, and got Fedora 3. It looked nice at first, no trouble installing, and a real nice web experience. However when it comes to the everyday little things , like trying to print, well, I have not been able to get my printer to work at all, not even a test page. This more "capable" system is only more capable, if you can actually use it!
Now I would just like to get it off my machine! But, I can't. I have a copy of Vector, that a friend gave me, but it won't install because Fedora is there. I realize I am new to computers and to Linux, but there has to be something I can do with this. Can anyone tell me in simple terms either how to get my printer working, or how to get Fedora out of my machine and life? I have already had (and am considering) the suggestions that involve tall buildings, or the rear tandems of large trucks ( the trucks idea is looking good). the version of Vector that I can't seem to get installed is SOHO 5.0. If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
William (Justbill) Sanders
williamsanders@charter.net
I am new to computers, I have an old HP 233, with a 60 gig hard drive, 192 mb of ram, and yes, I know I could use a new machine, but this has been inexpensive to learn on! I had 98SE on this machine originally, but it kept crashing. So I got frustrated, and got Fedora 3. It looked nice at first, no trouble installing, and a real nice web experience. However when it comes to the everyday little things , like trying to print, well, I have not been able to get my printer to work at all, not even a test page. This more "capable" system is only more capable, if you can actually use it!
Now I would just like to get it off my machine! But, I can't. I have a copy of Vector, that a friend gave me, but it won't install because Fedora is there. I realize I am new to computers and to Linux, but there has to be something I can do with this. Can anyone tell me in simple terms either how to get my printer working, or how to get Fedora out of my machine and life? I have already had (and am considering) the suggestions that involve tall buildings, or the rear tandems of large trucks ( the trucks idea is looking good). the version of Vector that I can't seem to get installed is SOHO 5.0. If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
William (Justbill) Sanders
williamsanders@charter.net
Participate on our website and join the conversation
This topic is archived. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.
Responses to this topic
BSchindler
I have done what you asked, through the df command, here are the results:
File System 1-K blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
57153828 3767128 50483456 7% /
/dev/hda1 101086 12084 83783 13% /boot
none 95708 0 95708 0% /dev/shm
/dev/fd0 1424 13 1411 1% /mnt/floppy
I just entered ls /mnt/floppy, and it shows a file name "jcmpri~1.doc"
At this point I typed
cat /mnt/floppy/<jcmpri~1.doc>
and it said
bash: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'
and that is as far as I got. There is a small text file on this floppy, that was made on a machine using Win.98 so I know its there.
Thank
Justbill
I have done what you asked, through the df command, here are the results:
File System 1-K blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
57153828 3767128 50483456 7% /
/dev/hda1 101086 12084 83783 13% /boot
none 95708 0 95708 0% /dev/shm
/dev/fd0 1424 13 1411 1% /mnt/floppy
I just entered ls /mnt/floppy, and it shows a file name "jcmpri~1.doc"
At this point I typed
cat /mnt/floppy/<jcmpri~1.doc>
and it said
bash: syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'
and that is as far as I got. There is a small text file on this floppy, that was made on a machine using Win.98 so I know its there.
Thank
Justbill
