Re: WARNING: Newbie questions ahead.
> 1) Is there a way to boot from command-line (without pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL).
shutdown -r now to reboot
shutdown -h now to halt the system
> 2) From within the X server? (pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't reboots. Just
> has the speaker beeping.)
you could run su in an xterm, and then type the above.
> 4) Where can I find the HOWTOs archive?
The doc-linux-text package will put them in /usr/doc/HOWTO/
HTH,
Matthew
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