Thanks for your assistance and now NEW questions...

[Joe Villari]

Derick

I can't share any experience with renaming your machine and upgrades. My 
guess is it should be no problem.

As far as printing goes, check the archives. I've been wrestling with 
geting my HP 4MP to work.  At this point I've bailed on it because I 
just don't have the time. I could never get CUPS to work but am able to 
print postscript files via lpd and lpr. There are several howtos on 
setting up CUPS, USB and Network printers; start at 
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/.

Good Luck
Joe

Derick Centeno wrote:
> Thanks for your help and assistance.  Your guidance has helped me move a 
> bit more forward in the magical open source forest of Linux.
> Lowell Premer <lowell@kc.rr.com>
> Angela Kahealani <angela@kahealani.com>
> joev_nylxs@pipeline.com
> 
> NEW Questions:
> I know that by changing the hosts file in /etc I can name my system
> as I please.
> However, by doing so will I be limiting or interfering with future
> installations or upgrades of software?
> 
> What do I have to do to printconf or the printtools package so that
> it recognizes my hp printer?  Do I have to download the most recent 
> version from
> sourceforge.org and recompile it?  Also how do I get of rid of all those 
> pesky intel specific processor calls usually embedded in such open 
> source code; how do I get rid of those and enter the correct calls to 
> the PPC processor I have (or will have)?  Overall target difficulty 
> which I'm attempting to resolve: I have
> a hp deskjet 6122 (a really, really good printer) and I downloaded
> the current interface for CUPS but I can't get my system to recognize
> either the downloaded usb driver under the proper printer name or for
> CUPS to use the appropriate driver and print a simple test page.
> 
> Did somebody out there say I pitch softballs?
>