User SUNAGAWA Keiki says:
> bob@kunk.jriver.com wrote:
> 
> bob> I partitioned the drive with the patched apple hd setup
> bob> util, made the filesystem (80 megs swap sd1b and 2g
> bob> root&usr sd1a) with mkfs145 and went to install the
> bob> base. After some period of time the install gets "write
> bob> errors" and dies.
> 
> hmm, is app-size of the installer in the Get Info dialog
> related to the symptom?

I was thinking of that also. I have 36 megs of ram so I
bumped the app size up to 25. It still foobared but I'm not sure
it was at the same amount of data xfered. I can try to test this
further if it would be useful...
 
> tar has -p option to preserve original files' mode bits in
> extraction.  Some application programs including xterm need
> to be owned by root and be setuid'ed.  Of course this should
> be done as a super user.

Thanks, I've come into this from a SYSV background and didn't know about that
option which SYSV doesn't have by default. I'm more used to using cpio.
 

Bob
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