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From: faldor@seq.uncwil.edu (Sherman Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: how to shutdown -todos?
Keywords: shutdown, booting
Message-ID: <1992Aug21.161202.17701@seq.uncwil.edu>
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:12:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: seq.1992Aug21.161202.17701
References: <aeYd02P=1eZk01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <22231@venera.isi.edu> <22250@venera.isi.edu>
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
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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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