> It's very difficult to help you, if you don't even know what did you do
> that resulted in yours being stuck.
> I would suggest you to reinstall everyhing from scratch and that upon
> installation you define four different partitions, in that order: /, /swap,
> /usr/local/, /opt, /home, so that in future, if you have to reinstall (or
> upgrade)you keep everything apart from / and /swap, where will be istalled
> programs and packages that will be peculiar to you, and that you won't like
> to reinstall.
Thanks for a lot of good advice, Piero. I lucked out this time in that someone
recognized my symptoms as having been caused by my changing the host name. Postfix
couldn't deal with it and was hanging. I removed postfix from the boot process, since
I don't need it.
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Lane
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Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Using Linux to get where I want to go...
