Please direct your responses to the mailing list, not to me personally.
If I can't find time to reply, someone else might.
> step 1) plain text is checked in the format menu buddy. relax. get over
> it.
Who's helping who here?
> After I log into linux, I get "could not look up internett address for
> CTXXXXX-A.lafaytX.in.home.com. This will prevent GNOME from operating
> correctly. This can be fixed by /etc/hosts" So I looked in /etc/hosts,
> there is no directory hosts.
/etc/hosts is a file not a directory.
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.5
And that error is not necessarily an indication of a hardware error. It may
just be a DNS problem. Can you ping the other hosts on your LAN using raw
IP addresses?
> I went in to linuxconf and punch in all the info I have from the cable modem
> company. I tried switching it to DCHP in linux and ethernet card FAILS on
> boot up.
*How* does it fail? Be specific. Quote error messages.
> the link light on the hub is on. On boot up the light on the card is on
> through the LILO process and starts blinking when it checks hardware(the
> blinks are regular paced and bright full blinks, time spaced).
I'm not really sure what that means.
> The floppy just looks at the boot disk and no other disks. won't reconize a
> disk.
If that's all you can say, then, I'm afraid I can't help you. You need to
be much more precise. Quote the exact text you see on the screen that
tells you that things aren't working.
Eric
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