On Tuesday 29 Mar 2005 06:01, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
Rosmary, If you are going to wait, but you don't realy feel like messing around with a lot of stuff in the mean time, we can get you a system that will boot, and that you can work with, withoug getting everything working. Basicly, you can run a couple of commands, and the system will be back to booting.
I'm okay about messing around if you think I can follow the instructions sufficiently. I hate to deprive anyone of a challenge :-)
chkconfig alsa off chkconfig mail off
These two will turn off the two services that were stopping the boot, so you do not need to use the "I" option. (I believe you said mail was the name of the second one giving you problems...)
Yes "sendmail" But I am still able to use email.
Ok - then it would be:
chkconfig sendmail off
You can also do this from MCC in System --> Services.
Well, turning off alsa and sendmail will let you boot into Linux without having to use the "I" option. It will make life a bit easyer for you. Chancesa re, you do not need Sendmail running anyway. It is for more for people that have their own domain name, and want to run their own mail server. It both accepts incomming mail from the Internet, and will send mail from your system ether directly to the mail server of the person you are sending to, or relayed through another email server, depending on how you set it up. (Setting up Sendmail in not a job fo a newbie...) If you have the program you use for reading mail (kmail, Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail, etc) set up to use your ISP's mail server, then you do not need sendmail.You may also want to run:
mkdir /data echo /dev/hda6 /data ext3 defaults 1 2 >> /etc/fstab
Please note that this is >> /etc/fstab and not > /etc/fstab. Or you could open /etc/fstab in the editor of your choise and add:
/dev/hda6 /data ext3 defaults 1 2
at the end of the file.
Mikkel
I haven't done any of this yet. Do I do it if I'm going to do the "messing around"? The other thing that has happened is that I can no longer access packages on CDROM. It whirrs away and stops when I press enter (in Konsole doing urpmi).
Rosemary
The change to /etc/fstab will let you access the files you have there. I am not sure what you have stored there, but you may want it. Just editing fstab will not have any affect untill you reboot, unless you run "mount /data" as root.
Now, the problem with your CD is another story. It would probably be better to make that a seperate message. I have to find what I did with your fstab listing to double check what should be going on, and then we can try and figure out what is realy going on.
Mikkel --
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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