> o) oh yeah, and something funny is happening with halt.  When i issue halt,
>    it gives me a strange message about not being able to set the battery
>    backed clock (provides some strange diagnostic) and then seems to hang.
>    i.e. it doesnt poweroff/reboot the mac.  is this new behavior?  am i too
>    impatient?

This is odd...  I've been running on an SE/30, so I haven't noticed this.
I don't know what's up...  I think your other concerns are noted in BETA-1.
Hmm...  Except the tty permissions.  *sigh*  I'll fix that for the next one.
In the meantime, I think that the proper permissions and ownership are:
	600 uucp.wheel

So, after you install, do a "chown uucp.wheel /dev/tty0?"

-allen

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