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kopsis

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Posted: Aug. 01 2005,00:27

Looks to me like your swap is working fine. Your "free" output indicates that the full 256M of swap is available for use by the kernel as needed. Note that for the most part, Linux won't hit the swap until it actually needs it (i.e. you run out of physical ram). You're showing that you still have 117M of physical RAM free. Gotta love DSL! ;)

Jonno2002

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Posted: Aug. 01 2005,00:51

ok thanks, now onto the boot thing,

firstly there is a message that comes up right after selecting linux from lilo, saying somthing like wrong number press spacebar or enter for options, i would like to fix this so the error doesnt come up.

next, how do i change the boot sequence so i can add SSH and xampp at startup.

also how do i stop X from loading under the dsl account name at startup, is it possible to change it so it loads up to a command prompt and asks you to log in as root or dsl and then commands like startx can be used manually.

Jonno2002

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Posted: Aug. 01 2005,03:32

ok i figured out the first 2 things and still wanting info about the last thing i mentioned, also on bootup it says dma disabled by boot config (or somthing like that) and its in blue writing, so how do i go about enabling udma for my hard drive on bootup ?

Jonno2002

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Posted: Aug. 04 2005,05:13

ok got dma working, fixed all other issues, but now ive run into another problem. i need the "sendmail" function to work for my webserver and as far as i can see it doesnt exist in DSL so how do i go about installing it

Jonno2002

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Posted: Aug. 06 2005,00:25

cmon guys i need help on this one, ive got sendmail-8.13.4 but im damned if i can figure out how to compile and install it, ive read tutorials but their way over my head, there must be an easy way to get this installed, otherwise ill have to find another distro which support a webserver out of the box

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