emergency shutdown?

My laptop's been left on for the past 48 hours. When I came back to it this morning it was very hot, the fan was kicking in evert minute or two and everything was working really slowly It's now just ceased up completely. The text has disappeared off my xterm and I can't get any movement out of

Re: emergency shutdown?

function as one'? I don't have the CD's the thing was installed from intially - it was bought mail order with everything pre-installed. TIA. P Prince wrote: > > Simon, > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Simon R Tod wrote: > > > My laptop's been left on for the

Re: emergency shutdown?

That should be perfectly straightforward... but while a floppy has 1457664 bytes on it, rescue.bin is 1474560 bytes, so won't fit! The rescue.bin file on http:///images-1.20/ will fit on a standard floopy, but how does this differ from the /images-1.44/ version? Thanks. Jason Wood wrote: >

emergency shutdown?

My laptop's been left on for the past 48 hours. When I came back to it this morning it was very hot, the fan was kicking in evert minute or two and everything was working really slowly It's now just ceased up completely. The text has disappeared off my xterm and I can't get any movement out of

Re: emergency shutdown?

function as one'? I don't have the CD's the thing was installed from intially - it was bought mail order with everything pre-installed. TIA. P Prince wrote: > > Simon, > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Simon R Tod wrote: > > > My laptop's been left on for the

Re: emergency shutdown?

That should be perfectly straightforward... but while a floppy has 1457664 bytes on it, rescue.bin is 1474560 bytes, so won't fit! The rescue.bin file on http:///images-1.20/ will fit on a standard floopy, but how does this differ from the /images-1.44/ version? Thanks. Jason Wood wrote: >