Re: linspire ruined my hd

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 10/09/05 

Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:59:49 +0200

Xandros Desktop OS User wrote:
> Distrowatch is one of my fav sites. Before linspire I was dual booting
> mepis and xp on one machine and xandros and xp on the other. I'm going
> back to xandros on both machines and whenever I can get my lexmark z510
> to start working with linux I am dumping windows.

Worth for you to check up is the following
http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/lexmark-list/2004q4/002819.html

   Jim Turner turnerjw at mesh.net
   Tue Dec 14 08:58:17 EST 2004

   Found it!!! I ended up booting into Winblows - argh! - and installing via
   the CD install and it created LMAAB1P1.PPD along with a bunch of other
   "driver" files. I then copied this file to my Linux partition at
   /etc/cups/ppd/, renamed the foomatic default "generic postscript printer"
   PPD file (<printername>.ppd) to something else, and renamed LMAAB1P1.PPD to
   <printername>.ppd, & now seems to work great! Anyway, since I could not
   find this file ANYWHERE on the web, or on the driver CD (must be buried in
   some exploding Windows binary) OR on Lexmark's ftp site or website AND
   Lexmark linux tech support was USELESS - they didn't even know what a PPD
   file was, I POSTED it on MY WEBSITE: (http://home.mesh.net/turnerjw/jim/),
   for anyone else that may want it and NOT wish to install or boot into
   Windows! The copyright sais that it is freely didtributable as long as it
   is not altered (& I did not alter it). After a few more tests and tweeks,
   I'll post a howto so that this printer can be added to the LinudPrinting
   database.

   Jim Turner

I hope that will help you to single boot... I do think you should look into
LVM too, for 160G will easily be filled with a lot of junk and you may want to
just add another hard drive and increase your slices sizes.

  //Aho

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