[aclug-L] Re: Suggestions?

[Michael Moore <mrmoore@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Vian wrote:

>Michael Moore wrote:
>
>>Jonathan Hall wrote:
>>
>>>I'm not aware of any Linux-specific classes being offered in the area
>>>(although there may be some).
>>>
>>>What sorts of specific things are you wanting to learn to use Linux for?
>>>
>>>-- Jonathan
>>>
>>I am also a Linux newbie.  I have only been using Linux since November.
>> I have been using it at home to do things that I did before with M$.
>>As far as specific things I am wanting to know, I don't have that many.
>> Most of things I want to do is become more familiar with Linux.
>>The Man pages and Info pages are sometimes helpful.  Also, there are
>>some good books and tuturials that are available online.
>>
>>I too would like to take some Linux classes.  First, one that would help
>>me become more famaliar with using Linux and its commands.
>>
>>So far, I have been able to do the same things in Linux as I did in M$
>>except for a few:
>>1) I don't have a compatible scanner.
>>
>
>I can't help here. Have not set one up myself yet.
>
>>2) My color inkjet printer doesn't seem to work very well under Linux;
>>so, I am currently using a black & white laserjet.
>>
>
>You need to set up the correct printer driver for your printer.
>Some of the newer printers are not yet supported but a ton of them are.
>
I have a Cannon S450.   I am able to use it with the bjc600 driver.  Its 
just it doesn't print as good as it did under M$.  Anyway, I use my 
laserjet for most of my printing.  When I get time I will try other 
drivers and see if there's some things I can do to improve it.  For 
example: the main thing it does is print everything in high resolution. 
 Which uses a lot of colored ink.  I tried using the print utilities by 
setting them to enconomy mode and changing some other settings....but, I 
didn't make any difference.  Anyway, I haven't used it in over a 
month...with linux.  I'll hook it back up and see if I can think of some 
other things to try.

>
>>Some things I'm wanting to learn:
>>1) I previouly had my M$ computers networked together.  Now that one of
>>them is running Linux I want to network it with my other M$ computers so
>>that I can share printers and files.
>>
>
>if you set up samba on the linux machine it can provide and use windows
>shares that the other machines will have access to.  Read up on it and
>you will find it is really powerful.
>
>>2) I currently have a two hard drive system with Linux RH7.2(hdb1/ext3)
>>on one hard drive and M$ (hda1/vfat) on the other; so I can boot to
>>either OS.  I was wanting to make the vfat partition on the first drive
>>smaller and put an ext3 partition in the freed up space.  I thought I
>>might be able to do this using the cfdisk command.  I can't seem to get
>>the cfdisk command to work or I just don't know how to use it.  Any
>>suggestions.
>>
>
>read up on fips (it is included on the dos utilities section of the
>redhat linux distro CD)
>
>if you do a defrag of the vfat partition so all the end of the partition
>is free and no data gets lost then fips will let you resize the vfat
>partition and create a new partition at the end.
>
>>-----Mike
>>
>>>
>>>
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