Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > > > adb: bus subsystem
> > > > adb: mapped device (16) at 2
> > > > adb: 200 dpi mouse at 3
> > > > adb: unknown type device (def 7, handler 2 at 7)
> > >
> > > Just wondering, what kind of mouse are you using again?  The above is not
> > > an apple standard mouse...and for that matter, the keyboard is not
> > > standard either...
> >
> > The boot that this was taken from was using an Apple Desktop Bus Mouse
> > II and an Apple Keyboard II.

Was just thinking....the Quadra610 has *TWO* ADB ports on the
back.....could it be that only one of the two is supported? 
hmmm...................whatcha think?

> 
> How weird, the kernel should be able to detect your keyboard and mouse
> correctly (I use the same thing, and I get something more like 100 dpi
> mouse at 3, and Apple Keyboard II at 2 or something like that).
> 
> > Being a newbie to all this, I (unfortunately) do not know how to install
> > *only* /sbin/init, however I would be more than happy to try this if you
> > (or anyone) would like to tell me how.  Is it indeed something as easy
> > as uncompressing the archive and then using the minishell to cd into the
> > directory and using cpin to copy the single file?  Or is it more
> > difficult than this?
> 
> I'm not sure what the best way to do it is if you only have the MacOS
> tools in which to do it.  You could uncompress it (using whatever you
> want for the gunzip), and then find a copy of a program like tar which
> understands tar files and extract init from the archive.  You could then
> indeed simply copy it in.  I'm not sure quite how easy this is.  If it is
> too much trouble, I'd recommend simply reinstalling the entire base
> distribution.


This I can do, thanks to the handy utiliities tar (from funet) and
macgzip......  I have used these programs before, and they are easy to
use..I think though that I'll try the other ADB port first...what do you
think?
> 
> Later.
> 
> --
> Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
> Consultant                                        Rice University
> Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX