ok, if you cant shutdown why do you use linux in the first place? the command is as root: shutdown -h now
[EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: > Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off debian tells me > at bootup that devices were not unmounted properly. I don't use any > commands to shutdown debian, I just use the on/off switch when I'm > finished. Apparantly that is a bad idea. > > I'm guessing there must be a way to get debian to shutdown properly so I > don't have to wait for everything to uncompress and unmount before it can > boot up again(?). > > If so, what is the command to shutdown? Or is it simply cntrl/alt/del to > cause debian to stop everything from running and then turn it off at memory > checking? That's the only way I know how to avoid error messages that say > the system was not properly unmounted. > > Thanks > > Andre' > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >