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Steven Cook (s330134@student.uq.edu.au) wrote:
: Hi I just got the Redhat 4.0 Archives CDs and am trying to install it.  The problem is that it
: detects my CD drive but during the installation the files get corrupted.  So I think that it
: is having trouble transfering large files from the Cd drive.  The drive is a Hitachi CDR-7730,
: it contacted Hitachi and they said it should work fine as it is a standard IDE drive.  It is
: also configured as the primary slave and my HD is the primary master.  The CDs are fine as I
: managed to copy the whole of the Redhat to my dos partition under Win95  and installed it from
: there fine.  Has anyone else had problems with this?

I have an AST Pentium clone at work, and I have a CD rom on it. My configuration
is that the CD is on the secondary IDE port, so that it is idec. The lady from
tech support at the company the P.C. was brought from said that they had 
problems with file corruption with large files being copied from the CD to the
hard disk when the CD was a slave on the same IDE port as teh HD.

: One last thing two now when the kernel is booting and it starts the sendmail program it stops
: and does nothing for about a minute before proceding.  Do I need to load sendmail as all the
: networking I need is dialup ppp.

You only need sendmail if you have your computer as a separate system. Whether
this is having something such as yourhost.myisp.com.au or something like
mycompletely.separate.domain.com.au. If you log in to your isp or uni, and you
run the mail client program (MUA) there, then you won't need to run sendmail.

Maybe you can edit your startup files so that sendmail isnt called. Probably 
sendmail bmombs out because there is no sendmail.cf file, which is the config
file for sendmail.


Later
Graham