Michael,

I tried to follow your steps. 

Step 1) - worked. 
I unchecked single user checkmark box in the booter and started NetBSD
successfully.

Step 2) - did not work. I could not open (tried 'vi /etc/rc.conf') that
file, because Read-only File System. From 'cat /etc/rc.config' I were
unable to desume whether or not the option was set as you advice.

Therefore:

Step 3) - couldn't be executed up to now. When I do it nevertheless
(btw, I have to type in several 'exit' anyway), finally (when the
#-prompt disappears) I get this on the screen:

| swapct1: /dev/sd1b: Device not configured
| mount_ffs: /dev/sd1a on /: No such file in directory
| /et/rc.conf is not configured. Multiuser boot aborted.
| Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:

Now, that there's said "Multiuser boot aborted" I understand, that I
booted indeed in Multiuser mode, correct? And nevertheless, I'm still
having a read only file system  . . .

When I boot in NetBSD I'm getting this (in brackets { } what I enter):

| NetBSD 1.3.2 (GENERIC) #0: Sun May 17 00:23:35 CDT 1998
|
| - - snip - - 
|
| boot device: <unknown>
| root device: {sd1a}
| dump device (default sd1b): {ENTER}
| file system (default generic: {ENTER} or alternatively {ffs}
| swapct1: /dev/sd1b: Device not configured
| Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.
| /dev/sd1a (nosuch file or directory)Can't stat /dev/sd1a
| /dev/sd1a (nosuch file or directory)Can't stat /dev/sd1a
| Can't stat /dev/sd1a: No such file or directory
| /dev/sd1a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck_ffs MANUALLY 
| Automatic file system check failed; help!
| Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:

That error msg, I got that the first time, when I did *NOT* boot in
single user mode.
As for fsck_ffs, I looked at the man pages, but it's still pretty foggy
to me, how to get that beast running  . . .

Thanks in advance for any advice

Ulrich

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>Von: "Michael G. Schabert" <mikeride@prez.buf.servtech.com>
>An: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
>Betreff: Re: Installation problem
>Datum: Don, 3. Sep 1998 23:43 Uhr
>

>Step 1)
>Make sure that you have the booter set up to go multi-user.
>
>Step 2)
>Make sure that you have RC_CONFIGURED set to YES in etc/rc.conf.
>
>Step 3)
>Type "exit" without the quotes.
>
>
>Those steps should definitely get you booted multi-user.