.rpg and Mandrake
Cyber Source
peter at thecybersource.com
Tue Jan 27 16:57:55 EST 2004
You would have needed to have been root to install the rpm file. The
shutdown command needs another options you left out, type "shutdown -h
now" and that will do it. A -r would mean a reboot.
Timothy Domst wrote:
> I have an older Nvidia card that had the proprietary 3d driver on
> their website only, not the Mandrake install disks. I got the .rpg
> files on my desktop after I got them from the site, and just clicked
> on them and they expanded and installed. The computer didn't seem to
> have to look to find the rest of the card's drivers in the
> filesystem. Is this because Linux has a rigid filesystem that can't
> be changed so everything can be found by the system, and therefore no
> search was needed? Or are they just in my Usr folder somewhere?
>
> I also have a question about shutting down. I tried shutdown -h from
> the terminal and it didn't work. Am I getting the syntax wrong?
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