How to make FC3 and Win XP SP1 coexist safely?

[wwp]

Hello Yunus,


On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:43:12 +0700 "Yunus" <yunus at cdl.co.id> wrote:

> 
> > On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:03:39 +0300 Markku Kolkka <markkuk at tuubi.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Yunus kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 24. lokakuuta
> > > 2005 14:08):
> > > > How to install FC3 into this machine safely (without destroy
> > > > my data and Win XP) ? What partition should i create before
> > > > installing FC3? (I intend to use partition magic for this
> > > > purpose)
> > >
> > > Resize your Windows partitions to create free, unpartitioned
> > > space for Linux. Don't create any partitions with Partition
> > > Magic, let the Fedora installer take care of that.
> >
> > When I received my latest brand new laptop w/ XP (SP1) installed on it, I
> > went in XP, used partition magic to downsize the XP partition, then booted
> > from FC3 CD to create a new ext3 partition that uses the just-free'd room,
> > then installed FC3 w/o problem. Grub config was properly set by the FC3
> > installer and XP appears (and boots) from grub menu :-).
> 
> Thanks to wpp and Markku Kollka!
> I have succeded in installing FC3. Now I would like to install my HP Deskjet
> 3920 printer, but i could not find appropriate driver from the list FC3
> offered. Is there any driver that i can use  (as a substitute)?

It may work w/ a generic PCL5 (if yours is PCL5 compatible of course).. I
just suggest that you'd know what format your printer supports and give a try
to the generic driver for this format if you cannot find the exact model or a
very-similar-family model in the list.


Regards,

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wwp