Really New and Need Help

ringo_fjb · 08-15-2003, 08:35 AM

I have a friend who had a guy work on his computer. He runs a Point of sale system on the computer that was deisgned to run in DOS 6.22 so whoever set up the computer used blue linux that boots to a login screen and then you type dosemu to load the dos shell and P.O.S Program.

Problem is the dot matrix printer will not work It works on his old DOS machine so it is not the printer.

Do you have to configure the printer in Linux first before it will be able to print??

How do you load the gui in linux

david_ross · 08-15-2003, 01:13 PM

There is info about how to setup a printer in dosemu here:
http://dosemu.sourceforge.net/docs/R.../README-2.html

To start the gui try:
startx

That is if it is installed.

rahulsundaram · 08-16-2003, 02:40 PM

hi

check which runlevel you are running in by typing

runlevel in the command line.

if its 3 in it should be 5

/etc/inittab has a line that says 3 change it to 5 and your system will always boot into a gui.

otherwise type startx from the command line

consult the dosemu docs from dosemu.org

printing from linux is done thru lpd from the comand line

regards
rahul