currently taking mandriva 2009 one for a spin

[stinger30au]

found a tutorial on how to setup mandriva 2009

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfec...e-2009.0-gnome

how to set up mandriva 2009 on usb stick
http://www.eeextra.com/linux/mandriv...-creation.html

tutorial on how to setup ubuntu 8.04

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfec...hardy-heron-p4

and how to setup opensuse 11

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfec...op-opensuse-11


will investigate the mandriva 2009 tutorial later tonight

[stinger30au]

i have got my dvd playing sorted out

wish i could get my usb canon i865 printer working, more reading is guess

[stinger30au]

got my i865 going, i forgot im a registered user of linux turbo print so installed the demo version, it will do for the time being




a question about hard drive partitioning

i did read a tutorial on how to install mandriva to a sub stick, not that i want it on a usb memeory stick

but the tutorial mentioned you should just install the ext 3 system on the usb stick and thats it

whe i installed mandriva 2009 one to my 20 gig hdd i just kept cliking on add partition and it created about 4 or 5 partitions

cna i just do a custom partition and set it to etx3 and it will setup its own swap directory and the rest like the usb setup or what??? i assume it would be ok

[stinger30au]

got the printer working, thanks to this

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Errata

Printer configuration tool not installed by default in One editions

See also Bug #43635. The new printer configuration tool, system-config-printer, is not installed by default when installing a One edition of Mandriva Linux 2009. This means there is no available option to configure a printer. To resolve this problem, simply use the Mandriva software management tools to install the system-config-printer package. After doing so, the printer configuration tool will be available in the Mandriva Control Center, in the Hardware tab.

[stinger30au]

i dont suppose anyone can tell me how to setup a pdf printer at all???

[stinger30au]

well, after carefull reading and experimenting, i decided to do a customhard drive partitioning and setup a swap of 2.2 gig and gave everything else to etx3 and let mandriva 2009 install itself

much better... now i have 14 gig free for me to tinker with then the 5 gig i had before on my 20 gig hdd

yee-haw

[Extreme Coder]

Not to be annoying you or anything, but wouldn't these questions be better asked on the Mandriva forums?
forum.mandriva.com
I never needed to use a PDF printer, so I wouldn't know, sorry.

[wolfen69]

that's OK if stinger asks in this forum. that's what it's here for. but it seems he is doing a great job of figuring things out for himself. =D> i wish more people had the motivation that stinger does. good job.

some people ask questions like: "where do i download ubuntu from?" good luck installing it.

[stinger30au]

i really liked mandriva 2009 one os... im checking out a few different linux os's just for fun

google is defiinately your friend when finding answers