Re: man missing ?
Quoting MallarJ@aol.com (MallarJ@aol.com):
> In a message dated 1/26/99 10:36:52 AM Central Standard Time,
> d.wright@open.ac.uk writes:
>
> > PPP is essential if you install through a modem connection to the
> > internet. PCMCIA is essential if that modem is a pcmcia card in a
> > laptop. I use the ZIP drive support to save pumping floppies, but
> > I only started doing this after it became necessary because I had
> > to install linux on a machine with an LS120 drive (which can only
> > read a floppy through the BIOS).
> > I'm not sure where you got printer support from - the lpr package
> > is not in the list, viz.
> >
>
> I may be wrong about this, but don't you also need netbase to get to the net
> using PPP? That wasn't installed... and as for the printer support, you're
> right, lpr isn't installed, but the port drivers are...
ii ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.8 Video terminal manipulation - share...
ii netbase 3.11-1 Basic TCP/IP networking binaries
ii newt0.21 0.21-8 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8648 Jul 9 1998 lp.o
There are 1MB of modules on the drivers floppy in modules.tgz. Removing
an 8KB (uncompressed) file and a few others would have no effect on the
size of base2_0.tgz which is spread over the five base disks.
Cheers,
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