> I've recently started playing with NetBSD, and have been trying to get it 
> up and running on a MacTV, 68030, from a ZipDrive.

Cool.  This should work just fine.

> thus far, i've successfully installed the netbsd kernel, base10, etc, 
> man, secr, and text.
> i've gotten it to start up off of booter, but when it finishes, i get a 
> minor problem;

Sounds good so far.

> it askes me to select a shell (i take sh as the default)

That's good, too.

> and i type login

Nooooo!  This would be the big problem.  You don't want to run the login 
program before you've set up your /etc/passwd file.

> when prompted for username, i type root,
> then it asks for a password.
> 
> i've tried no password (as specified), space, root, toor, and a bunch of 
> other gibberish, but i cannot log in.

Although I don't know why no password isn't working (it should on a 
default system), you might want to type "exit" at the prompt instead of 
login.  This will boot you fully into multi-user mode.  From there you 
should be able to log in as root and do a passwd to change the password 
to whatever you wish.

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
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Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX