[H-GEN] Problems with Linux boot

[Craig Eldershaw]

>I can ftp and telnet to Linux from W95, but I now get the following message
>on booting Linux:
>
>	netmask doesn't match route address

Ummm...well can you give us the output of running the command "ifconfig"
and "route -n" ?  Your netmask is the thing that looks like
255.255.255.0 - but sometimes it's different, it depends upon your
particular network setup.  If you give us the details (from those above
commands), then we can look it.

>I have been trying to get my Linux to talk to Windoze 95 with limited
>success.

OK, so telnet and ftp work one-way.  What else did you want to have ?
If you want to access your Linux files from the Win box, then look into
Samba.  I'm not sure if the reverse is possible (not being a terribly
Win knowledgable person).  If you are running NT, then connecting from
Linux to the Win box is OK - not sure if you can do it with '95.

>Also it seems to temporarily hang on 'amd'. I have worked out that this is
>the automounter, but that's as far as I could get!

In case you didn't know: the automounter is a swish program which
mounts filesystems on demand (eg. your CD-ROM, or a NFS server).

Not knowing the details of your setup, I suspect the problem is that you
don't have access to a domain name server (dns).  amd is probably
trying to check a few details about hosts it uses/is used by.  It sits
there for some time as it tried to contact your DNS - causing a delay
until finally the attempts time out and the rest of the boot can
proceed.  Do you actually have a use for amd ?  If not, then just
disable it.  If so, then make sure either (a) you can get at your DNS,
or (b) all the relevant hosts are listed in your /etc/hosts file (so
no lookup is needed).

Cheers,
	Craig.