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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: S.C. Barnard who wrote (213)	4/4/1999 7:33:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

ahem. WIN 95 IS NOT MULTITASKING. It pretends to be. It is not really. FIRST YOU SHUT DOWN X. THEN YOU SHUT DOWN LINUX BY USING THE HALT COMMAND. IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO EXIT ALL PROGRAMS FIRST. I take it you have three physical drives and Linux is on the 5th partion of your third physical drive, then it would be /dev/hdc5. if you go "cat /etc/fstab" you will see what partions are on your disk. Please publish that for us. Of course you must boot from a boot disk and mount the main partition first I would think. If your version of RH has a shutdown command in X I would think it refers to X only. does your screen go black and you get a series of messages saying "exiting runlevels, shutting down system" or words to that effect? If not then you are merely exiting X not Linux. EC<:-}