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I just installed Debian 2.0.
1) what are the floppy drives that are designated with letter 'u'?
2) what is the proper total shutdown procedure?  if I do 'shutdown -t
now' it take me to the maintenance prompting me to enter super user
password......
3) how do I change run-level in debian?  is there any utility or
something?  I ask this because when I tried Debian last time which was
about 6 months ago, the run level related things were TOTALLY
different from descriptions in the Linux books that I have.

TIA!
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Quote:> 2) what is the proper total shutdown procedure?  if I do 'shutdown -t
> now' it take me to the maintenance prompting me to enter super user
> password......

shutdown -h 1 m or shudown -r 1 m

see man shutdown.

Quote:> 3) how do I change run-level in debian?  is there any utility or
> something?  I ask this because when I tried Debian last time which was
> about 6 months ago, the run level related things were TOTALLY
> different from descriptions in the Linux books that I have.

init <runlevel>

HTH,

Jens
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shutdown -h -t now
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Quote:>3) how do I change run-level in debian?  is there any utility or
>something?

telinit(8).

Quote:>I ask this because when I tried Debian last time which was about 6 months
>ago, the run level related things were TOTALLY different from descriptions
>in the Linux books that I have.

For some reason, a lot of books about Linux are still based on Slackware,
which uses BSD-style init scripts, rather then System-V-like ones, which
Debian, Red Hat and others use.

Ray
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g> 1) what are the floppy drives that are designated with letter 'u'?

They're floppy devices that only run at specific capacities; they're
generally used for formatting disks and nothing else.

g> 2) what is the proper total shutdown procedure?  if I do 'shutdown -t
g> now' it take me to the maintenance prompting me to enter super user
g> password......

You need to add -h to halt or -r to reboot; see shutdown(8) for
details.  I generally shut down with 'shutdown -h now -t3' or some
such thing.

g> 3) how do I change run-level in debian?  is there any utility or
g> something?

The same way as with any other Linux: use the 'telinit' utility.  So
'telinit 1' goes to single-user mode (same as 'shutdown' with no
flags), 'telinit 2' goes to a "standard" multi-user mode, etc.

<soapbox>Runlevels under Linux do not have a well-defined meaning,
although by convention 0 is shutdown, 1 is single-user, and 6 is
reboot.  Debian doesn't have a particular runlevel for xdm vs. not
xdm; I've used systems where that runlevel has been 4, 5, and 6 (an
old Slackware box).  Saying "I booted to runlevel 5" is *completely*
meaningless since the local admin can trivially change /etc/inittab to
do whatever he/she wants at each runlevel.</soapbox>

Normally in Debian runlevels 2, 3, 4, and 5 are all identical; you can
use the update-rc.d utility to change what runs when.

PS: Your "From:" line appears to be incorrect, in particular it has an
extra "z".  Could you please fix it?  Thanks...

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