"m. d. walker" <mwalker@en.com> wrote:

>A few questions though:
>
>1) When I get the prompt, it asks for my terminal type. I enter vt100, but
>do I need address this problem?
>

You're booting single-user.  Set up an account for yourself and then edit
etc/rc.conf.  Change the line

RC Configured=NO to
RC Configured=Yes

To enable a multi-user mode boot.  If you have access to a book on Unix
admin, this can help you with setting an account up.  Otherwise, mail
me...once upon I wrote up a set of instructions and should still have them
laying around.  (Disclaimer:  I'm not a guru...I've just whacked my head
against the wall enough to know how to get a few things working :-).

>3) Is there a polite way to exit unix, rather than just rebooting the Mac?

As a wheel member, you can use the command 'shutdown now' to bring the
system to single user mode.  As root, type 'halt'.  A few seconds later
you'll see the message 'you may turn the machine off or hit any key to
reboot'.

Alternatively, instead of 'halt', type 'reboot' to do a soft reboot to
MacOS.

Good luck!

>Now, if I can only keep from screwing everything up!

Heh...that's half the fun of it!

Steve Revilak
revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu