John Aldrich wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> >
> > And after pricing a decent pair of crimpers, you'll find that hub
> > looking more and more likely. Besides, with a crossover cable you're
> > absolutely, positively limited to two machines. With a hub you've got
> > growing room.
>
Mike Armour wrote:
> Greets all,
>
> my newly installed hangs (completely ctrl-c and the three finger salute
> don't work) on "Starting optimisation for hda" and "Starting optimsation on
> hdc" upon boot.
> a reinstall hasn't done any good and from the boot disk i'm can't figure out
> how to pass
Hi, Bill!
Sorry I'm just now getting back but I just got back home after a
business
trip this week.
I am a new user like you from Windows/DOS world. So, with that in
mind
here are my comments:
"/root wasn't mounted" sounds to me like you may not be root. After
you
ran "linux emerge
John Aldrich wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> >
> > Ok John, I finally figured out the "#" is the "REM" equivilant of DOS. My
> > problem is that when I went to do the "mount -w -o remount /dev/hda1/" I get
> > a message that the /root wasn't mounted or "bad option" and the file is s
Installing Mandrake (Venus) 6.0 everything appears to go well although
but I think my old Trident 1meg video card should display at 16 bit
level 640x480. Anyway, on initial boot after install load I get this:
INIT: Entering run level 5
INIT: can't execute "/etc/rc.d/rc"
INIT: Id "1" respawning
Installed Mandrake 6.0 but have file problems. The program advises
using 'fsck' without the -a or -p switches.
What the heck is fsck and how do I make it work?