On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Bhargav Bhatt wrote:
had gone to somebody's house, where the internet was not available,linux would simply not boot. During the setup it stalled at the foll message "Bringing up interface eth0"
edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
look for something that says ONBOOT="yes" change it to "no"