I hope this is what your looking for? You can go into the console mode on OS X by adding an account called ">console" as the account name.
Select the ">console" user at the login menu and you will be at the Darwin console.
BTW, If some application companies would start to allow their...
Has anybody had any experience with mounting a solaris nfs exported / shared mount point from a mac os x client?
I keep running into a permission problem. However, the solaris box is allowing the mount point for everybody with anon=0.
Strange...
Oh yeah, the nfs://server doesn't work...