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From: stevewa@upvax.UUCP (Steve Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: fdisk/powerdown
Message-ID: <1155@upvax.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 91 10:16:39 GMT
References: <4620@cocoa7.UUCP>
Reply-To: stevewa@upvax.UUCP (Steve Ward)
Organization: University of Portland, Portland, OR
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In article <4620@cocoa7.UUCP> protofan@motcid.UUCP (Mike S. Protofanousis) writes:
>What I would like is someone to tell me what commands need to
>go into the 'autodown' script which would do an fdisk to
>the dos partition and then do an immediate powerdown (without
>prompting for confirmation).
>
>Is this possible?

I don't know if you can feed information to the sys V fdisk program,
but I do know that DOS will boot successfully off a floppy and
will be able to recognize drive C: on your hard disk even though it's
not the boot partition.

Perhaps it'd be easier to just set up a DOS boot floppy with the
CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, etc from your hard disk and have your
brother boot from that...then he'd just have to use the normal
shutdown command.

Steve
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