Re: [expert] How can I shutdown a PC from telnet?

2001-12-30 Thread rusted
I saw the note and tried su - as well. Now I know why Linux makes such a bulletproof server - it refuses to go down! ''' [root@penguin root]# shutdown -hf now Broadcast message from root (pts/0) Sun Dec 30 20:47:12 2001... The system is going down for system halt NOW !! ... '''

Re: [expert] LM 8.1 on toshiba satellite pro 430cds

2001-12-29 Thread rusted
Well, if you have tried that and booted from CD2 with an alternate image, it may be failing at uncompressing the ramdisk (in other words, a media vs CD drive problem) Alternate media or an alternate CD drive would be my first moves next. After that Hmmm I know some people with

Re: [expert] LM 8.1 on toshiba satellite pro 430cds

2001-12-29 Thread rusted
Well it was 7.2 and 8,0 with kernel 2.2--and they all had 48M RAM. I sent two of them your address, but I don't know how helpful they will be. There is really nothing in the specs that seems odd or in any problems they reported that matches what you are reporting. ftp installs are

[expert] LM 8.1 on toshiba satellite pro 430cds

2001-12-28 Thread rusted
If this really belongs on newbie, my apologies. Simply email me privately and I'll go join the newbie list... Having installed LM 7.2 on my Toshiba Sat pro 430 cds, I was looking forward to getting 8.1 installed. However, it dies, no matter what I try. No matter which kernel image I try (on

Re: [expert] LM 8.1 on toshiba satellite pro 430cds

2001-12-28 Thread rusted
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... the second stage install, and it dies with the following text on tty1: in second stage install install exited abnormally :-( sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...done etc ... on tty3 we see: ...stuff... * stage1: disconnecting