Gentlemen,

Thank you for your response. . .

>On Wed, 20 May 1998, m. d. walker wrote:
>
>> After a successful install of all files, I was finally ready to for the
>> Boot program.
>>
>> And its response:
>>
>> panic: ResHndls table too small
>>
>> So I bounced over to (http://routbort.neuro.duke.edu/netbsd/ ) check out
>> some past postings on this error.
>>
>> When I disconnected my Kensington Mouse-in-a-box and hooked up my original
>> mouse and retried the Boot program; Presto!
>
>Good to know. The ADB folks will be interested in this. :-)
>
>> (Okay, I'll admit it: I danced around the room a bit, and maybe yelled
>> whoopie.)
>>
>> 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?
>
>What's the exact message? Have you gotten a "login:" prompt asking for an
>account name? If not, you're booting into single user mode, and need to
>not. Chances are that you need to edit /etc/rc.conf (after making the root
>file system read/write)...
>
>> 2) I have to deselected all options relating to the serial console,
>> otherwise the boot program gets as far as the quote, (The real way that it
>> should be done is to...) lights up my modem like a christmas tree, then
>> hang. There is obviously something wrong, but I cannot seem to find a
>> reference to it. What might it be?

I was booting into single user mode.

>
>Nothing wrong. If you have serial console enabled, the computer is
>expecting the console is connected to one of the serial ports, like the
>modem port.
>
>What do you want serial console to do?

I do not need a serial console. This was selected on my part due to
"Beginner Goofitis"

>
>> 3) Is there a polite way to exit unix, rather than just rebooting the Mac?
>
>shutdown -r now or shutdown -h now

This is exactly what I needed. Thank you.

>
>> Now, if I can only keep from screwing everything up!
>
>That won't happen. :-) I've been doing this for a while, and I still screw
>up stuff. Just keep learning from your mistakes, and you'll do well. :-)
>
>Take care,
>
>Bill