"Martin J. Laubach" <mjl@emsi.priv.at> wrote:

>   Not enough memory. The standard install floppy needs a tad more
> than 4M, so you won't be able to install on a 4M machine (run yes,
> but not install).

That was it.  Thanks also to  Eidnes@runit.sintef.no for telling
me about the GENERIC_TINY, INSTALL_TINY, and the resulting images.
I didn't need them, but it's nice to know of them.  An idle 16MB
SIMM fixed the problem.  What ever happened to the days when 4MB
was about as close to infinite as you could imagine... 8-)

Jon