>I recently installed NetBSD on an old LC III I had lying around (amazing
>how much faster that thing is when it doesn't have to keep drawing
>pictures), and only two things are truly driving me bonkers right now:
>
>1)  Black text + white screen = big headache.  Is there a way to switch to
>a more standard white/grey text on black screen?

Use the "dt" utility. It'll let you have the inverse video, will let you
use your mouse (with cut/paste), give you virtual screens, and it's even
much faster than console :).

>2)  Instead of networking, I have net-sort-of-working.  I have a modem on a
>Linux PC which is configured to be my gateway to the world.  If I put a
>nameserver entry into my /etc/resolv.conf, then the Mac loses its ability
>to address the machines on my home LAN by name...but if I take the
>nameserver entry out, then I have to address other machines by IP address.
>Is there something I'm missing that would let me have my cake and eat it,
>too?

Why not just put your lan computers into /etc/hosts?


HTH
Mike
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