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Paul.Org
11-13-2003, 07:04 PM
Greetings all,

I have (after many misadventures I may post another time) manged to get RH 9.0 installed as a second OS on my Win98 machine.

Once I got it running it was looking good - except my network card (a cheap but 3 month old Realtek PCI card) wouldn't intitialise.

No biggy I thought since the system fails it and boots anyway.

Then I tried to setup my modem (Netcomm Roadster II USB - 5 years old) and things went bad on me.

Now the boot stops ats 'initialising ppp0" and doesn't proceed.

I've tried a rescue mode boot in order to remove the ppp0 from the boot sequence but I couldn't work out what/where to comment out...

I did mess around with Linux about 6 years ago as part of a course and understand enough to be dangerous (like how to use vi) but not enough to fix this problem.

All I really want to do for the moment is disable the eth0 & ppp0 initialsations so I can come back to them later once I work out what to do. I've read so much stuff in the last week I think my head is going to burst but I havent found the answers I need...

Can anyone tell me what I have to edit?

Thanks in advance :)

Spell
11-13-2003, 10:56 PM
Placement can differ a tiny bit from distro to distro but

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0

ONBOOT=no

Paul.Org
11-14-2003, 04:33 AM
Many thanks Spell - I'll try this tonight and hopefully can then concentrate on getting things moving...