On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:41:57PM -0500, Mr. Gecko wrote:
When I first boot linux after I have installed it.
It tries to start the internet superserver and here is the outcome
Starting internet superserver: inetd.
INIT: id "1" respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes
and every five minutes it appears again. I am going to let it run
over night to see what happens.
I do have linux on another machine with extra space for another drive
so I can just pop in the hard drive and change files if needed before
the first boot.
Do you get a login prompt on the console? The numbered entries in
inittab are generally the getty processes for console login. The
common reason for something like that is not having the right files
in /dev for the console.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com