Hans Huebner wrote:

> ...  You also need enough space on your CF to copy
> the distributions you want to install onto the card (this is was sysinst does,
> by default) and unpack it.

If you can find a friendly NFS server, you don't even need to have
space locally for the distrib sets.  Another option if you are short of
space is to extract the sets by hand directly from the ftp server after
sysinst does the partitioning with something fancy like:

	cd /; ftp -o "|tar xpfz -" ftp://.....

You'll probably need to make the devices in /dev by hand and maybe some
other steps if you go this way.  I don't have a hpcmips machine and
don't know what hpcmips specific stuff sysinst does after extracting the
sets.

Simon.