1. It can take a Linux system quite a while to boot. Several minutes isn't
impossible. It depends on the specifics of your hardware and what processes
the system is starting up as part of the boot process. 2 or 3 minutes isn't
too long.
2. The sendmail delay is probably a DNS problem. sendmail is trying to get
information from a nameserver and can't find it. Without knowing more about
how you set up sendmail and DNS, I can't be more specific.
3. startx should give you a colored screen in under 30 seconds (how fast
depends on how fast your machine is). "something about authority something
or other" is not an error message I can intepret, so I can't give you
specific advice about what to do. As a general rule, if you want help with
errors, you need to tell us the EXACT error messages.
At 05:27 AM 7/6/99 -0700, Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
>I was wondering, does it take well over 5 minutes for the system to finally
>get to the root prompt? I do notice that when it gets to starting
>sendmail, it does this for at the very least 5 minutes alone! :-O
>
>When I "finally" get to the root and type "startx" (which was configured
>during start-up (even had the viper 550 driver no less)) it says something
>about authority something or other, after about five minutes the screen
>goes blank and end up hard resetting the computer. Is this normal or do I
>need to re-install this thing?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>Charles R. Buchanan
>
>
>
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