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- Path: sparky!uunet!seq!faldor
- From: faldor@seq.uncwil.edu (Sherman Brown)
- Subject: Re: how to shutdown -todos?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.161202.17701@seq.uncwil.edu>
- Keywords: shutdown, booting
- Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
- References: <aeYd02P=1eZk01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <22231@venera.isi.edu> <22250@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:12:02 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) writes:
-
- >gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning) writes:
- >> I (allard@isi.edu) wrote:
- >> > I notice two shutdown programs.
- >> > ...
- >> Try "/sbin/shutdown -h now". Its in that man page somewhere.
-
- >I just saw that agate.berkeley.edu has a FAQ entry for this, viz:
- >(faq is in agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/)
-
- >2.43 The "shutdown -todos" command doesn't work.
-
- > There are two flavors of this problem. The first is if your path
- > is set so that you are using the wrong "shutdown" command.
-
- > The second is that it gives the message "can not make DOS partition
- > bootable". This will not work if your partition is larger than about
- > 30K (the point at which DOS will use a 16 bit FAT). Apparently, it
- > will only work with 8 bit FATs, so if it is possible, use a smaller
- > DOS partition, or several smaller partitions instea of one large one.
-
- >Dennis
- >allard@isi.edu
-
- Mine wouldn't shutdown at all to begin with, so I mread from the
- dist.fs the shutdown on there and used it. From root it works
- fine I haven't tried from a normal account.
-
- Good luck,
- Faldor
-
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