On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:14:36PM -0800, Quentin Hartman wrote: > On 12/15/05, Matthew Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Quentin Hartman wrote: > > > > > > > > An alternative (and perhaps more appropriate, depending on your use > > case) solution is to change the DHCP timeout in > > > /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf to a more sane value. The default is to wait > > a minute, which imho is pretty asanine. In my experience, DHCP answers > > in less than 10 seconds (usually 5 is even safe...) if it is going to > > answer at all. So, that is one of the first things I change on pretty > > much every Linux machine I work on. That way, you still get auto-config > > of networking on boot 99% of the time, but don't have terrible boot > > times when you are disconnected. Best of both worlds. > > > > Oh, and another handy trick that sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, is the > old ctrl-c. On some distros (including the Ubuntu Dapper Drake install I am > writing this from) hitting ctrl-c will abort an init script if you don't > want it to run.
yeah, we ended up doing that. It ended up being a boot option to solve the real issue, maybe someone can post what it was... The dvd program I couldnt remember was dvdrip or dvd::rip. Jamie > > > -QH- > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
