I've rearranged the machine to get more room, and partway reinstalled.  

I now have 2 20 meg partions, for / and swap, on sd0, and 80 on sd2 for 
/usr.

I've put 1.2.1 on this time, and have found a couple of apparent 
differences (master.passwd rather than passwd).

But what I can't beat is xinit.  It is giving me the libXext.so.6.1 not 
found error.  I checked the faq again, as this sounded familiar.  YEs, 
i'd fought it before, and copied the old /etc/rc to the new /etc, and 
rebooted.  Still no dice.  So i tried the "setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH = 
/usr/X11R6/lib", and still none.  "ls $LD_LIBRARY_PATH" shows that the 
file is there.  I've rebooted a couple of times, and still the problem 
persists.  does this make any sense?

rick