Re: [Sheflug - Sheffield Linux User's Group] newbie needs help/java

["Mark Broadbent" <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Hi,

> So next question. When I installed suse 6.4 I had to do so using (old Yast) as
> my pc will not boot from cd, so I ended up with a text based login (bash??) I
> have to enter "startx" in order to get to KDE. I would prefer a graphical login
> if poss but not too bothered about that, my problem is doing a logout. I logout
> of kde which gets me back to the command line. I have tried "logout/exit" ect
> ect ect  but whenever I reboot I get the message "/dev/hda6 not unmounted
> properly" so how do I shutdown correctly.

You did shutdown/reboot the computer using the shutdown command didn't you?  If not, login as root and type...

To shutdown (or halt) type:

shutdown -h now 

To reboot type:

shutdown -r now

and it'll shut your computer down properly (and unmount all your drives as well)

Cheers
Mark

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