Re: help with installation

[Michael J McGonagle]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> 
> address@hidden writes:
> > This turns out to have been a mistake; there are serious problems with
> > the printing system in 8.1, so if I were you I'd either do the 8.2
> > beta, or wait until 8.2 comes out officially.  I seem to have fixed my
> > problems with the printing by installing some RPMS (the actual list
> > you need is at http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1485) from the
> > 8.2 beta3 distribution.
> 
> Interesting: as it happens, redhat 7.2 (and 7.1) had lots of problems
> with printing as well. Specifically, my laserjet would print the last
> page of a job only when the next job was processed. You got the PCL
> init strings for the next job on that last page.  It's been fixed for
> me with the latest updates, though.

I believe that Mandrake 8.0 is based on Redhat 7.x. I don't know how
Mandrake got one version number ahead. While I am sure there are other
differences, someone mentioned that the only real difference between
Mandrake and RedHat is that Mandrake compiles to i586, while RedHat
compiles to i386...

Mike