On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, John Ostrowick wrote:

> ok. presuming i can enable read/write root access by using
> 
> mount -a'u'w /      (or whatever)

mount -u /

> - make a booter program that actually *does* save its prefs. i get really
> annoyed resetting boot vol scsi id to 0 from the default of 5; no matter
> how many times i click on save, it just doesn't save. I'm sure we all have
> our internal boot volumes set to 0. I'm sure most of us would rather keep
> the thing on the internal hard disk instead of some arbitrary external
> drive (which we might not necessarily have).

After you save preferences, quit the program.  Then relaunch the booter.  
The changes should then stick.

> - make the thing stop asking me for root shell and terminal type when i
> boot in single user mode (currently the only mode that boots to a shell). I
> want to be able to set this somewhere that it always reads. I presume this
> is in the normal etc/rc and .cshrc and etc/passwd, but i can't edit them
> and ain't sure that they *are* there and not in the kernel... Correct me if
> these are not the places to look.

Hmmm.  Try editing .profile and adding TERM=vt100, or something like 
that.  Not sure offhand.

> - make an a/ux mounter for the macos so i can mount the a/ux partition and
> see what is on it and more importantly, be able to edit the files in bbedit
> because i **HATE** "vi" and it's the best you get under unix.

I don't know about mounter possibilities, but under un*x, you could try 
getting a copy of the pine distribution and making a copy of pico.  It's 
not as powerful as bbedit, but, speaking only for myself, I think it's a 
lot easier to use than vi.

Hope that will help on at least a couple of the points.

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