Re: Printing from BDI

[Jack Ensor <jensor-at-qis.net>]

Ray wrote:

> www.linuxcnc.org/bdi  There is a question and a download from programs on
> printers.
> 
> > The BDI install was successful, I see there are four EMC icons on the
> > desk top - they all come up but I need to figure out which ones do
> > what, and then how to use them.
> 
I down loaded the  two files from www.linuxcnc.org/bdi :

   printtool-3_44-1_noarch.rpm
   control-panel-3_13-1_i386.rpm

and copied them to a floppy which I stuck into my Linux BDI machine,
clicked on the Floppy icon on the desk top and I get an error saying:

  Mount: can't find /dev/fdo in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Now is the problem that the disk is in a DOS format and Linux can't
read it?

Once I get Linux to look at the the floppy and display its contents,
where do I copy the files to?

If I am using the terminal mode, what would the commands be?


> The key directory on the BDI for EMC stuff is /usr/local/emc.  You can get
> there by pressing the home icon.  This launches a window of kfm the file
> browser, and press up arrow to get to (/).  Then move to the directory next
> on the list. ->usr ->local ->emc.  Once there, you can click (one time) on a
> text file to see it's contents.  Clicking on an executable, the little
> terminal icon, will attempt an execution of the file.  If nothing happens,
>

I don't have a home icon on my KDE desktop that comes on when I boot
up.  So I can't get there by this method.  Any suggestions?

> it is probably because there is some kind of error.  I prefer to start
> execution by first opening a terminal.  By doing this I can see messages
> and problems while starting and running the program.
> 

I assume you do this by clicking on the terminal icon at the bottom
of the screen.  That's what I have learned to do.

I have been reading the recent posts and discussions with Weyland -
they have been quite helpful.  Hope I can catch up with Weyland's
progress.

And by the way what is HTH?  You seem to end all your posts with it.

Jack Ensor