On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:48, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Rosmary, > >> If you are going to wait, but you don't realy feel like messing around > >>with a lot of stuff in the mean time, we can get you a system that will > >>boot, and that you can work with, withoug getting everything working. > >>Basicly, you can run a couple of commands, and the system will be back > >>to booting. > > > > I'm okay about messing around if you think I can follow the instructions > > sufficiently. I hate to deprive anyone of a challenge :-) > > > >>chkconfig alsa off > >>chkconfig mail off > >> > >>These two will turn off the two services that were stopping the boot, so > >>you do not need to use the "I" option. (I believe you said mail was the > >>name of the second one giving you problems...) > > > > Yes "sendmail" But I am still able to use email. > > Ok - then it would be: > > chkconfig sendmail off > > You can also do this from MCC in System --> Services. > > >>You may also want to run: > >> > >>mkdir /data > >>echo /dev/hda6 /data ext3 defaults 1 2 >> /etc/fstab > >> > >>Please note that this is >> /etc/fstab and not > /etc/fstab. Or you > >>could open /etc/fstab in the editor of your choise and add: > >> > >>/dev/hda6 /data ext3 defaults 1 2 > >> > >>at the end of the file. > >> > >>Mikkel > > > > I haven't done any of this yet. Do I do it if I'm going to do the > > "messing around"? The other thing that has happened is that I can no > > longer access packages on CDROM. It whirrs away and stops when I press > > enter (in Konsole doing urpmi). > > > > Rosemary > > Well, turning off alsa and sendmail will let you boot into Linux without > having to use the "I" option. It will make life a bit easyer for you. > Chancesa re, you do not need Sendmail running anyway. It is for more for > people that have their own domain name, and want to run their own mail > server. It both accepts incomming mail from the Internet, and will send > mail from your system ether directly to the mail server of the person > you are sending to, or relayed through another email server, depending > on how you set it up. (Setting up Sendmail in not a job fo a newbie...) > If you have the program you use for reading mail (kmail, Thunderbird, > Mozilla Mail, etc) set up to use your ISP's mail server, then you do not > need sendmail.
> > The change to /etc/fstab will let you access the files you have there. I > am not sure what you have stored there, but you may want it. Just > editing fstab will not have any affect untill you reboot, unless you run > "mount /data" as root. > > Now, the problem with your CD is another story. It would probably be > better to make that a seperate message. I have to find what I did with > your fstab listing to double check what should be going on, and then we > can try and figure out what is realy going on. > > Mikkel Done those commands and rebooted, and did it without a hitch. Thanks. Rosemary
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