> well, i finally gave up on the IIci -- it was a parts-shop-created machine,
> and i think there must have been some un-guessable factor in its creation
> that prevented me from using it as a Unix box.

Sorry to hear that.  Oh well...

> i have gotten my 12 MB LCIII/Performa450 back from a friend who had
> borrowed it, however, and NetBSD *will* boot on this one.  grudginly so, it
> seems.  (sometimes i get an 'unimplemented trap' error -- at least i think
> that's what it was).  but it will boot, nonetheless.

Do you have an FPU on that machine?  Perhaps this is the what's causing 
that error.

> still a few problems, though.
> now in the middle of the boot process, i get a dialogue asking for my
> terminal type.  what do i put there?

I use vt100, personally.  There are two ways around this, though.  One is 
to edit .profile (or .cshrc) in / which should contain a line like 

tset -q

or somesuch.  That is the line which asks for the terminal type.  You can 
explicitly set the TERM environment variable instead.

The other way to avoid it is to boot into single user instead of 
multi-user.  Although you still might have to change that line in the dot 
files if you log in as root.

> also -- which directory is the 1.2beta in?
> 

I think that the GENERIC#7 kernel is essentially 1.2beta.  It's located at:

ftp://ftp.macbsd.com/pub/outgoing/briggs/

The binaries for 1.2beta can be found at:

ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/w/wormey/netbsd/
ftp://ftp.macbsd.com/pub/NetBSD/eskimo.copy/
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/
http://www.eskimo.com/~wormey/

Some additional 1.2beta kernels are also on ftp.netbsd.org in the above 
directory.

Later.

-- 
Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX