Intro NeXTstation Turbo Questions

NeXT has a look that other computers wish they had, the hardware is classy and the GUI polished. Oh, in that case <zip, zing, whoose>, OK, it's booting :^) Had to hunt for a while for a place to plug the power cord into the monitor though I'm afriad. Then I realized there wasn't one :^) Well, it's now sitting in the "Mounting file systems" state, has been for a few minutes, don't know if it's fscking the drive, or looking for NFS volumes, for all I know it could be expecting some external volumes, but with a 1Gb HD I kind of doubt that. <waiting> OK, it's been about half an hour and the progress bar has sat at that point the whole time. Anyone have any ideas? Hmm, sounds like a plan, OK, I've just dropped into the monitor, and see that I've got 48Mb of RAM instead of 32 <yipee>, but only a 239Mb HD instead of a 1GB <sigh>. Gotta love an error msg of "WARNING: preposterous time in Real Time Clock". OK, playing some more with the ROM monitor, it looks like it's actually got some RAM that needs reset, or it's got a bad 32Mb SIMM, I know there are 4 SIMMs, but it only shows 3, one 32Mb, and 2 8Mb (cool). Some more playing and I somehow got it to do a verbose boot (I was actually trying to power down :^/ It is in fact stuck on trying to mount a remote file system, namely /usr/local (hmm, shouldn't be devistatingly important). OK, how do I boot single user so I can make changes to /etc/mtab? For all that goes does it use /etc/mtab? <hoping single user mode isn't password protected> Also, I'll try to figure it out after sending this, but how do I shutdown this thing properly? It's looking like a halt from the monitor, which will apparently sync the HD, and then pull the plug <gulp>. Also is there a FAQ on these systems somewhere? I took a look out on the net, but didn't dig anything up. Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ |