Re: Printing from BDI

[Paul <Paul.Corner-at-tesco.net>]

Hi Jack

Quoting from  the errata section on http://www.linuxcnc.org/bdi - There was
a small ommision in the setting up of the floppy icon.

The floppy icon on the KDE desktop need to point to the correct device/directory. 
Right click on the icon -> Properties -> Device 
Set both 'Device' and 'Mount Point' to /mnt/floppy 


Once you have the directory window displayed, clicking on any rpm package
'should' automatically start up kpackage (a GUI rpm front end). If not, you may
need to drag them to a folder on the hard drive and rename them.

Once you have kpackage up and running, just click on the "Install" button !

HTH (Hope That Helps)

Regards, Paul.


On Fri, 07 Sep 2001, Jack Ensor wrote:
> 
> 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?

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