Robert Benjamin wrote: > > On 3/31/2013 12:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Robert Benjamin <benjie1 at cox.net> >> wrote: >>> WELL, I don't know what to say. I just put the HD in the PC >>> turned >>> it on and was waiting for the blue screen so I could login as root and >>> type 'init 3'. BUT, guess what happened. A tiny clock appeared at the >>> top left followed by a log in screen and here I am. Happened very >>> quickly. A few seconds. Now, do I dare log out and try to get back or >>> just wait for a reply from you. Yesterday I never did init 3 either. >>> Maybe it is the Easter Bunny. I don't know. I'm a bit apprehensive >>> about >>> shutting off and trying again. What's your opinion? >> That's the way it is supposed to work, and since no one recognized the >> previous symptoms my best guess is that it was some sort of hardware >> issue. Maybe swapping the drive left a bad connection to the disk or >> network. >> >> -- >> Les Mikesell >> lesmikesell at gmail.com >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > Looking for the book you recommended by Fraesch: Essential Systems > Administration. Tried a local Barnes and Noble store and the author's > name is different. They have it as Frisk, same title. Third Edition. > Hope it's the same book. Can you double check please. I assume this is > at a level I can deal with. Thanks. > They can't spell. On the cover is a non-ascii char, that when I was a kid in school, was the way some books spell Caesar, with the "a" and the "e" sharing a line. <http://www.amazon.com/Essential-System-Administration-Third-Frisch/dp/0596003439> As I may have said, everyone I know in computers has a number of books from this publisher - he specializes in not only finding people who really, really know their subject, but CAN ALSO COMMUNICATE WHAT THEY KNOW (as opposed to, say, the BAL textbook I had in college, many years ago, that if I could have gotten the rights to, I'd put all the pharmaceutical co's market for sleeping pills out of business....) mark