Re: The shame of it

[Graham Spearing <nospam [at] freenet.co.uk>]

Alastair Donlon wrote:
>
> sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
>
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 08:49:48PM -0000, Graham Spearing wrote:
> > sheflug - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
> >
> > Chaps,
> >
> > My Linux box is a bit dead. I am in Micro$oft land at present.
> >
> > When the system (Mandrake 6.0) boots it seems to go OK then hangs once it
gets to 'Starting Local'.
> >
> > This has got soemthing to do with rc.local?
>
> Possibly. Any idea what was in rc.local?

Well I'm back in Linux Land! This has been a useful exercise. The
failing was mine. I'd edited my rc.local with a line as part of a series
of ammendments to try and help me get true type fonts working. This
clearly caused the problem. I ran up linux single and got a prompt and
ran vi on the script and commented out the offending line. A quick
shutdown -r now and I was back in action!

So, even though it was my fault - a check in a book and a clear process
that can be mapped and fixed, and I'm back. If it had been windows I'd
be reinstalling...

I still don't seem to have true type fonts working - is xfs doing the
job for me? Probably not. I had decided to upgrade my memory to run
StarOffice on my box. I'm on 32MB and intended to move up to 64 to make
it feasible. However my motherboard PA-2006 has a mix of 2 simms and 2
dimms. The simms are populated with 2 16MB simms. Can I get 1 32MB Dimm
to upgrade or do I have to throw away my current memory? I guess that's
going to depend on the motherboard?

I got my new win98 laptop today from work. Crashed twice already...

Pip pip

--
Graham Spearing
gspearing@freenet.co.uk

I couldn't help it. I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

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