>> 1. mountd and nfsd are presumed to appear in /sbin, but on i386/1.4.1 I found
>> 	them in /usr/sbin.
> 
> What makes this presumption? They should be in usr/sbin..

Mitch's iMac diskless setup instructions give command examples with /sbin/mount
and /sbin/nfsd.

> > 2. I edited root/etc/ttys and changed the vt100's to vt220's so I wouldn't
> > 	have to type it seperately for each login.
> 
> I think vt100 is supposed to work..

Ok; the instructions said to type 'vt220' if you were asked the terminal type.

> > 5. If I hold down the N key on powerup, the first thing I see is the NetBSD
> > 	dmesg in "Sun console font"; however when it gets to mounting the
> > 	root device, it finds nothing and prompts for a root device BUT the
> > 	keyboard is dead so I have to power-cycle it. It looks like we depend
> > 	on some console/keyboard initialization that happens when you use the
> > 	OpenFirmware command line to boot the kernel.
> 
> Yep. It was part of the goo to get the B&W to even boot.

Sounds like we'll need to pick apart Darwin to solve this one. Do we have an
ETA on the source code availability of that yet?

> > 6. If I try 'startx' with slightly modified skel startup scripts, I get:
> 
> This is a 1.4.1 or a -current kernel? This is exactly what I see on my
> B&W in current. I didn't know 1.4.1 had been zapped..

So far I've only been able to boot 1.4.1 so that would be it.

Normally I would not care about X at this stage, but since I can't turn off
the iMac's monitor separately, I want to get a screen blanker on it soon.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com