David Laight wrote:

> sysinst has a habit of aborting when sets are missing, so doesn't
> run MAKEDEV (and a couple of other, less important things).
> (I think the user can continue, but it doesn't make that the default.)

i did continue and it apparently didn't run it :<

so, 3 questions:

1) why are man.tgz and misc.tgz in the i386 iso 0-size files?
2) is there anything else except a MAKEDEV all that i need to run?
3) why would the GENERIC kernel see chown/chgrp binaries as shell scripts?