On Sun, 23 Jun 1996, Reuben Thomas wrote:

> (Some dumb ones)

Not really. There are many non-trivial things in NetBSD...

> 1. How do I boot native? Ticking the "boot native" box in the config. 
> window doesn't seem to make it happen.

UnixFS must be working. There's a directory inside the Boot Manager which 
you should have a look at. 
 
> 2. How do I add users so that I don't keep logging in as root and getting 
> the "don't log in as root, use su" message?

There's any function for that in rcm, which is in the config set.
If you want a user that can do an su, you will also have to add him to 
group 0 in /etc/group

> 3. ISTR that when I installed the original base set there was a nice 
> official looking .profile in the root directory with lots of comments and 
> commands in it. Now there's a really small one. I've edited the PATH 

I'm not sure about this. There was some confusion about root's dotfiles 
(ie those starting with a dot), once they were missing completely.

> variable, which didn't include bin directories on the usr partition, and 
> have made the same changes to /root/.profile, but seemingly to no avail, 

The standard shell for root is the csh, which doesn't read .profile, but 
.cshrc instead. It is probably a good idea to put echos in all those 
dotfiles to see which of them get read and when.

> when I boot up. Also, I'd rather use bash by default. Should I be adding 
> commands to .login?

No, you change your shell with chsh. I would be careful about that, 
because the bash set installs to /usr/local/bin. If your /usr partition 
is absent for some obscure reason (eg because a crash has moved a lot on 
it to lost+found) you have even bigger problems. I installed them to /bin 
(you have to change /etc/shells to reflect that).

> 4. Where is the Configure script? I've forgotten to run it and it doesn't 
> seem to be on the path at the moment, nor can I find it.

This is a part of /.instutils. I don't know how this can be executed.

Hope this helps,

Markus