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Re: low power PC



* Miaoling Chiu <chiu_miaoling@yahoo.com>, 2001-08-17 10:44 +0200:
[...]
> What I don't understand though is how to
> power down a hard disk (or how to install without
> a hard disk). 
[...]

While not knowing the latter, I've got a Laptop and have come across
the spindown problem. Usually there's a lot of writing to logs etc.,
and the syncing is very hard to stop. For a start, install
"noflushd", and take a look at the debian-laptop list archives.

A. B.                                  andre DOT berger AT web DOT de



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