hi. i'm doing a vanilla 1.6 install on a thinkpad a20p. six months ago, i
did a 1.5.2 install on the same machine and it went flawlessly. this time,
something bad happened.

we get to the point where sysinst asks what to be installing, and i go for
full. since earlier, when doing the disk config i selected X11, this means
i'm going to get the x11 distribution sets.

everything goes just fine downloading all the .tgz's. everything goes just
fine unpacking them until we get to:

pax ... .../xbase.tgz
Segmentation fault

uh.... what?

so, i started from scratch, did the disk config for x11, but when it came
time to select distribution sets, i turned off all the x stuff. sysinst ran
successfully and i'm now in the process of doing pkgsrc stuff.

i'll install x manually later on.

but, what gives?

/mtr