startup probs
 

ok, so i have finally got fc3 to install and it goes to start ok, however on boot it gets to 'Starting smartd' and just hangs. what is it and can i disable it, its stopping me from booting so i'd need a way to get into command prompt to do something i guess.....but what ;)

man smartd:

NAME
smartd - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon

If your HDs don't support it, then don't run it.

To get in to your install you'll have to boot off of disk, mount your root partition and then take it out of your startup steps.

sorry, could u give a bit more exp. on how to do this :)
ie. what file do i edit to stop it loading

sorry to be dense

ok so found i need to use chkconfig smartd off

but i'm getting same thing on cups, sendmail etc any reason this norm. happens

I had the same problem with startup, sendmail, postfix, ...
I didn't guess why it hangs on boot, but when I start them manually ofter startup they start fine.
to remove a service from a runlevel do this :
if you find a reply (why they hang), post a reply in this thread. Thanks in advance.