I can guess what this means:

-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         40960 Sat Mar 14 06:41 1998 ./usr/bin/lookbib
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7           164 Sat Mar 14 06:40 1998 ./usr/bin/neqn
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7           888 Sat Mar 14 06:40 1998 ./usr/bin/nroff
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         16384 Sat Mar 14 06:42 1998 ./usr/bin/pfbtops
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7        188416 Sat Mar 14 06:40 1998 ./usr/bin/pic
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         16384 Sat Mar 14 06:42 1998 ./usr/bin/psbb
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7            45 Sat Mar 14 06:40 1998 ./usr/bin/psroff
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7        114688 Sat Mar 14 06:41 1998 ./usr/bin/refer
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         16384 Sat Mar 14 06:09 1998 ./usr/bin/soelim
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         98304 Sat Mar 14 06:40 1998 ./usr/bin/tbl
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         32768 Sat Mar 14 06:41 1998
./usr/bin/tfmtodit
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7        262144 Sat Mar 14 06:40 1998 ./usr/bin/troff
uid 0 on /: file system full

/: write failed, file system is full
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7          3918 Sat Mar 14 06:11 1998 ./usr/bin/vgrind
-r-xr-xr-x     3/7         24576 Sat Mar 14 06:11 1998
./usr/libexec/vfontedpr
uid 0 on /: file system full

but what I don't understand is, why? I followed the FAQ-O-MATIC and
created an 80mb root, a 40mb swap, and a 220mb user. All was going quite
well, until I tried to install the text.tgz. It wasn't installing into
the root partition, so the root partition isn't the problem; it was
installing into 'user'. Can 'user' be full?? 220mbs???

Brad