Question 1
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Sometimes when I attempt to mount a floppy with the command mountfd,
I get the error
mount: msdos: Inappropriate ioctl for device

mountfd is doing:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0a /floppy

Usually doing the following works fine (but not always):
mount_msdos /dev/fd0a /floppy

Why is this? I'm using a 1.2G kernel.

Question 2
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Why doesn't shutdown work properly from a shell script? It kills the
script
and starts the machine shutting down, but doesn't kill the shell process
itself. This can leave the machine in a limbo state.

Stephen Borrill