Re: WARNING: Newbie questions ahead.

To: Christian Lavoie <clavoie@enter-net.com>
Cc: Mailing list <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: WARNING: Newbie questions ahead.
From: "M.C. Vernon" <mcv21@cus.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 08:23:59 +0000 (BST)
Message-id: <[🔎] Pine.SOL.3.96.981104082222.29311B-100000@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-to: matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 000201be0784$27672060$a131a7ce@lavoie.com>

> 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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- WARNING: Newbie questions ahead.
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