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Installing Web Jetdirect on Linux?

Sean Kunis — Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:40:58 GMT

I was thrown into the thick of things when our system admin guy left and I don't know much about Linux so anybodys help is much appreciated. We currently aquired an HP 4500N Color Laser Jet printer which we have connected to our LAN. I need to install the Web Jetdirect software onto the Linux server but am having a hard time understanding how to do this. I downloded the software and burned it to a CD. However I am unable to find a CD rom drive designation on the server. In case anyone asks yes the CD rom exists. I am currently running Linux versiohn six.

Re: Installing Web Jetdirect on Linux?

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:17:32 GMT

If its an IDE cdrom, it is probably called /dev/hdb

so try:

mount /dev/hdb /cdrom

assuming you have a /cdrom directory.

Re: Installing Web Jetdirect on Linux?

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Tue, 15 Aug 2000 20:17:53 GMT

Actually, you could also find out the device name from

# dmesg

and search for entries for the cdrom

Re: Installing Web Jetdirect on Linux?

Sean Kunis — Tue, 15 Aug 2000 21:09:12 GMT

What prompt should I be at. I am at the root prompt and am not familiar with how to change to another.

Re: Installing Web Jetdirect on Linux?

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Tue, 15 Aug 2000 22:25:14 GMT

at the root prompt, type in

dmesg | more

if you find the device name for the cd drive (and I suspect that if it is an ide drive it is a hdb) then at the same prompt, type

mkdir /cdrom ; mount /dev/hdb /cdrom

then cd /cdrom
and you can proceed from there.

Re: Installing Web Jetdirect on Linux?

Jiri Furst — Wed, 16 Aug 2000 08:30:06 GMT

On my RedHat 6.2 system dmesg does not show
the boot informations. I can get the required information directly from the /var/log/dmesg
by typing (as root):

less /var/log/dmessg

In my case, I have:

...
hda: ST36531A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
...

It means, that the cd-rom is called /dev/hdb.
I can mount it by (as root)

mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom

Nevertheless, if you have RedHat (and may be other distributions), look if there exists /dev/cdrom or read the /etc/fstab file. May
be, that the cd-rom was set up during the instalation.

If the dmesg does not help, you can look also in the /proc directory. I have IDE cd-rom, so
"ls /proc/ide" shows the real existing hd? devices and cat /proc/ide/hd?/model shows what is reffered by /dev/hd?.

Re: Installing Web Jetdirect on Linux?

Sean Kunis — Wed, 16 Aug 2000 15:28:11 GMT

Got It!!! Thanks everyone.

Re: Installing Web Jetdirect on Linux?

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:15:04 GMT

Sean, just out of curiosity, what was the device name?

Re: Installing Web Jetdirect on Linux?

Marcel Eken_2 — Fri, 25 Aug 2000 06:42:36 GMT

Hi,

You dont realy need the jet admin software to print to a network printer,

You can also add it as a REMOTE printer on a server,

1. For the server name just add the IP-address or the Hostname of the printer.
2. For the remote printername/Queue add the value TEXT or RAW

This also works