I received some advice on how to get netbsd running on my 8mb se/30.  I 
installed MODE32 on a skeleton sys 7.5 and tried to boot (with the 
netbsd.patch for 1.0 and the netbsd.tar that Adam told me to try).  I 
tried clicking the single user mode and without.  Generally, the same 
problems occurred.  

1. The boot jumps from the booter console to a whole screen interface.  
(It is impossible to tell if it is the unix screen or it is a debugger.)  
A copyright and email address is listed.  Then a whole lot of info about 
memory and other stuff comes out.  One line reads, "weird mapping begins 
0x0."  Then a few tests are made.  Some go o.k.  Some say read only.  
Then, inevitably, an "enter shell path or press return for sh: " prompt 
appears.  I hit return.  It says putting "." before pathname, and 
continues. 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.

Am I close to a successful boot?

TIA,

Bud

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