Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 11:42:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: 1191140@beltel.telcom400.inca.za, DARBY@X400.telkom400.inca.za Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <199608071142.LAA00698@CoDe.CoDe.hu>
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Please, use a more descriptive Subject: line! Thanks! > Also, I get a WARNING : / NOT PROPERLY DISMOUNTED when I boot. I logout > and then turn off. I am running on a standalone PC. Am I doing something > wrong to get out of it? Yes. Under Unix there are so many processes running, and the sytem has a disc cache, too. So you have to explicitly tell the system that you'd like to shut it down (as in W95 :-). The proper way, is to login as ``root''. Or login as you, normal user, and use the ``su'' command. (Well, you know, under Unix, this is the preferred method - as you see, ``Don't login as root, login as yourself and use the `su' command''. But you have to be in the ``wheel'' group, to use the ``su'' command. To it, edit the /etc/group file, and write your login name in the ``wheel'' group's line. But to edit the ``group'' file, you have to be ``root''. Catch 22.) OK. So: ``su'', and after it: ``shutdown -h now''. It means, ``h''alt the system. If you'd like to reboot, use -r instead -h. When you see the ``Press any key to reboot, or halt the computer'' - or something like this, you can turn it off. Well, there is a more simple way which may or may not working to you. Type ``sync'', wait a minute (OK some seconds), and after it the CAD (Ctrl-Alt-Del) key-combination, as under DOS. When it resets, turn off. > Also, is there perhaps a FAQ or giude to BSD on the internet that is > intended for total begginers such as myself? I am battling along in a > small desert town with nothing but Win95 for 500Km around me! Somewhere in past, Annelise Anderson (the only lady I see in this group) sent a letter to the group: ---- For further information, there's a tutorial I wrote for users new to both unix and FreeBSD, available at http://www.freebsd.org using the links to documentation and then to tutorials.. It's also on my home page at http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/newuser.html. Or I'll send you a copy by e-mail if you ask. It should be just what you need at this point. Annelise --- (Her e-mail is: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Bye, Gabor -- Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu> -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky
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