I just reinstalled Mandrake Linux 9.1 on a laptop (I had 9.1 on there before, but I wanted a fresh install). I installed a web server during installation, as well as setting the security to Higher. However, when the machine boots up now, the KDE loading screen shows up after logging on, but then it "stalls" with just the wallpaper and the loading mouse cursor. I can hear the harddrive going, like it is loading (this will continue on for a while, before I turn off the power). The same thing happens whether I boot it up as "Linux - Secure" or just "Linux." Any thoughts on what went wrong? |.dev-c++.|.the gimp.|.seti@home.|.dbpoweramp.|.torn.|.=w=.|

Can you boot into just a text version? No X or KDE? Do the logs say anything?

Well, I decided just to do ANOTHER clean install. Everything worked this time (I changed security from higher to standard). I have Apache runnning, along with PHP-nuke. Now I just have to fool around with ports to allow others to access it.

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Ya! Server works now. Just need to fix some problems with my No-Ip.org domain name (I got a DynDns name to work, but I couldn''t get any of their update software to work on my Linux computer; therefore, I need to boot up my Windows machine to update the IP).

Next up, FTP server to provide files, and also access to Html docs. And then I''ll try to get Postfix to work so I can allow PHP-Nuke to send out e-mails.

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