On Sun, 12 Feb 1995, Jason Thorpe wrote:

[quoting me]
>  > Next it asks, "Enter terminal type: ".  I have no documentary 
>  > that tells me what to do, so I type "tty".  It responds with a "#" prompt 
>  > to which nothing, but the answer, "exit", works.  Except, "exit" just 
>  > reruns part of the initialization and gets me back to the "Enter shell 
>  > path" prompt.
> 
> heh - congratulations - I'd call it successful.  The ``stuff' you see 
> is the output from the autoconfiguration sequence...The `#' prompt in 
> this case indicates single-user mode.  The last time I used a Mac, I 
> think vt100 worked fine for the console...Sounds like you're missing 
> /etc/fstab or somesuch, since it keeps coming into single-user...
> 
I tried vt100 and next entered a command ("ls") at the "#" prompt.  I got 
a directory list, but then the system hung.  BTW, I had selected single 
user on the booter prefs.

TIA,

Bud

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