[pups] Figured some things out.

[Warren Toomey]

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 02:27:52PM -0600, Kelli Halliburton wrote:
> Well, as it turns out, I stumbled across the method of getting to multi-user 
> mode. ^D, imagine that. Dropping out of single-user mode starts multi-user 
> mode. That's not something I would have been able to use logic to figure out.

It's documented in the original V7 installation instructions. Effectively,
you start in single-user mode with a shell attached to the keyboard.
You have to disconnect the keyboard with ctrl-D, which then kills the shell
and starts running /etc/rc.
> 
> Of course, now my problem is that the console is presumed to be a TTY and not 
> a CRT terminal. And so, man pages just scroll right up and off the screen. Oh 
> well. I'm sure I'll figure out something. Eventually.

In V7, everything was a dumb terminal: termcap and curses did not exist yet.
And you were expected to have a paper-based terminal too :)

Cheers,
	Warren