Go to DrakConf on your desktop and select Startup Services. Then you just uncheck the
stuff you don't need. When you're done, that
pc should boot up much quicker.
Seve
-----Original Message-----
From: vern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, March 17, 2000 9:45 AM
Subject: [expert] New "features" in Mandrake 7.0
>Hello All,
> I just upgraded to Mandrake 7.0 and it contains a few
>"features" I could do without! On bootup there are several
>NFS errors about locking files, and a RPC error 101 that keeps
>recycling till it times out (about 10 times I believe) then it
>goes on and starts up. I then do my usual startx and I get
>xauth: errors but it times out and starts up. It takes me almost
>10 minutes to get going with the new version on Mandrake! I am a
>single user on a desktop, no network or anything I don't need apache
>nor four or five different languages on man pages, or any of the
>servers that start on bootup. What is the easiest way to prune out
>all the "features" I don't need?? Any help would be most appreciated!
>I would like to keep the "development" goodies C compiliers and the
>different libraries and languages.
>Thanks,
>Vern
