Ok. I am a complete noob in Linux. I know how to get away with some things but overall I dont know much. I installed linux on my computer yesterday and got the ethernet card working after a small error. Then I configured mozilla to connect to the internet through a proxy running on a windows 98SE computer. Everything appeared to be working fine, But when I set my homepage to be www.google.com things started to happen. Google loads fine but when I try to goto a different web page it just loads google again but everything is kinda screwy. After I set my homepage to something else it was fine. Then more error started to occur. When clicking links on webpages they would take me to a page that said blah blah blah is not here. After clicking that same link 3-4 more time it would finaly go.

Also I have another problem when booting up. The boot screen stops for about 2 minutes when starting Sendmail and Sm_client. overall it take about 3-4 minutes to boot which realy pisses me off. How do I fix both of these problems I want to be able to use google without problems and boot atleast under a minute.

Thanks,
Mike

It sounds like your proxy is a little screwy. I don't know anything about proxy servers on win98 but I think thats the culprit.

Do you need sendmail? If your not using it you could shut it off. What are the specs on you linux pc(cpu, memory, etc.)?

well im running a t-bird 1.33ghz abit-kt7a raid 512mb pc133 ram 40gb hdd and a geforce2 ultra. luckaly i have a computer right next the the other one so thats where im posting from now. I have a friend who might be able to help me out. How do you disable sendmail?

Mike

chkconfig sendmail off

/etc/init.d/sendmail stop (to stop it right away)

Or you can do it through the graphic services panel