Waiting on the printer...
Nov. 18th, 2003 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpPrinting from the desktop via Acrobat takes forever, or so it seems. Especially when the file being printed is so big, the spool is too big for whatever free disk space is left. So, while I send the document 10 pages at a time and wait for Acrobat to arthritically push the bytes through the printer cable, let me catch up on things.
Installing RH9 from images on the disk obviously involves not formatting or otherwise disturbing the partition on which the images are found. What that appears to mean is that the partition occupied by the images is no longer available for use during the installation. In my case, the only partition capable of handling three ISO images was my largest one, which is about 6.5 GB in size, or about 2/3 of my disk's overall real estate.
Scratch that idea.
If I try to do a network install, the boot floppy asks for a disk with a network driver. Although I cannot say I have exhaustively searched for the path to enlightenment (and a driver), I did look around for something for a 3C905C controller (which is on the Optiplex GX50 motherboard), and though I found some source code, I'm not at all clear as to what I must do to make it work with RH9 (what? compile it on the 7.2 box? as a loadable module?). I am simply not that much of a techie (not to mention I have a translation deadline looming over my head).
(BTW, the print quality of some of these pages is terrible... I wonder if it's intrinsic, due to Acrobat, or to the computer it's running on...?)
Back to work.
Cheers...
Installing RH9 from images on the disk obviously involves not formatting or otherwise disturbing the partition on which the images are found. What that appears to mean is that the partition occupied by the images is no longer available for use during the installation. In my case, the only partition capable of handling three ISO images was my largest one, which is about 6.5 GB in size, or about 2/3 of my disk's overall real estate.
Scratch that idea.
If I try to do a network install, the boot floppy asks for a disk with a network driver. Although I cannot say I have exhaustively searched for the path to enlightenment (and a driver), I did look around for something for a 3C905C controller (which is on the Optiplex GX50 motherboard), and though I found some source code, I'm not at all clear as to what I must do to make it work with RH9 (what? compile it on the 7.2 box? as a loadable module?). I am simply not that much of a techie (not to mention I have a translation deadline looming over my head).
(BTW, the print quality of some of these pages is terrible... I wonder if it's intrinsic, due to Acrobat, or to the computer it's running on...?)
Back to work.
Cheers...
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Date: 2003-11-18 11:43 am (UTC)