On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 10:26, Jason Hoffert wrote: > Iâm trying to decide which release of Fedora to use. I have installed > FC3 on my laptop about 5 times now, and after running updates, or > installing what I would think are minor applications, within days, the > laptop will stop booting properly. Today, it is hanging on âRed Hat > nash version 4.1.18 starting.â The last few times, the computer would > hang when running XWindows and I never saw a logon screen. Being new > to Linux but fairly savvy with computers, I tried to troubleshoot the > problem, and it may have been something with the synaptics driver (or > whatever is used for my touch pad mouse), but I couldnât fix it. > > > > Is FC2 any worse then FC3? Is there a reason I should lean towards one > over the other? My goal over the next 6 -12 months is to setup a > Postfix server with MySQL, PHP, and an admin frontend, like > PostfixAdmin. > > > > Any ideas?? > > > > Thanks! > > I also had a similar problem with FC3. I ended up just having mine boot to init 3 (modifying /etc/inittab to boot to init level 3 instead of 5). Then I login and run startx. My laptop stays running all the time so it's not a big deal for me to do it this way. James
