.rpg and Mandrake

[Timothy Domst]

Thanks for the replies.

On Tuesday, January 27, 2004, at 04:57  PM, Cyber Source wrote:

> 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.
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> Timothy Domst wrote:
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>> 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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