NeXT '040 Cubes

I don't know much about the Next hardware, but the NetBSD information often has some interesting information about each supported platform. You might look at the following location for help with your problems. http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/next68k/ --tom At 05:19 PM 3/19/01 EST, you wrote: with a hard drive and an optical drive. The other is a 33MHz '040 (Turbo?) with just a hard drive. Both power on fine, do their system test and then say loading from network. The picture looks like a coaxial "T" connector with a cable that has "data" rolling through it. They will not do anything else. I've been going crazy looking on the internet for days, but have not found a way to bypass this. I know you can "boot" into single user mode and then reset passwords, but how? Anybody lend me some suggestions? Keyboard shortcuts, etc. Also, I have an external 4gb hard drive that I have tried to connect to a working NeXT slab that I have, but it always has a SCSI error - no matter the SCSI ID or with or without terminator. Shouldn't I be able to use this with a NeXT and build a disk? Then couldn't I boot from the external if needed and build the internals? Thanks for any help, they sure are cool systems, x!