> > I am new to the Mandrake system but an experienced Linux user (SuSE,
> > Caldera), I made two successful installations of Mandrake 7.2
> and it worked
> > perfectly. But now when I try to make a new installation the
> installation
> > itself seems to work perfectly but on reboot everything just
> stops and the
> > system hangs when trying to initiate with the /etc/re.sysinit
> file, all it's
> > calls get the reply 'Permission Denied' and then everything stops.

If you have edited that file you might have used a rubbish editor (like
early versions of
gxedit) that dont save the permissions correctly,.. its probably had the
executable flag
removed, or read access removed, you will need to edit the properties to put
them back to normal.

regards

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Matthew J Fletcher
NPD Firmware
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