Re: Debian shutdown

[Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net>]

gunnar wrote:
> I've carried out a network-installation of 
> debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso and my problem is that I cannot shut it 
> down. The only way of shutting it down seems to be to press the 
> Reset-button, choose my Windows-partition in GRUB and carry out the 
> shutdown from Windows. Thank God for my Windows-partition, without it 
> I would have to pull the plug to shut down Debian. Can anybody tell me 
> a better way of shutting down Debian?
> Gunnar Sjöö

The easiest way to shut down is, as root, enter "shutdown -h now" from a 
shell prompt.  Minus the quotes of course.