On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:30, Donald G Wilson Jr wrote:
> Hi all, In Windows XP there's an option to shutdown Windows "safely"
> when the power button on my computer was pressed. Is there any way to do
> this in Linux?
>
> That's odd. I had no idea WIN XP did that. I don't think Linux could do
> th
Hi all, In Windows XP there's an option to shutdown Windows "safely"
when the power button on my computer was pressed. Is there any way to do
this in Linux?
That's odd. I had no idea WIN XP did that. I don't think Linux could do
that because among other things, the discs are sync'd on shutdown by
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 01:11, leeweiqi wrote:
> Hi all, In Windows XP there's an option to shutdown Windows "safely" when the power
>button on my computer was pressed. Is there any way to do this in Linux?
Yes, ACPI. You need to recompile the kernel with ACPI support, and boot
from that. I recomm
