>How big is your HD?
>If it's bigger than 1 GB you could try to repartition it and make sure 
>that there's not a partition bigger than 1 GB on the first part of the 
>disk. Perhaps something like this:
>1. MacOS, 50 MB
>2. Swap, 100 MB
>3. Root, 950 MB
>4. usr, rest of the HD
>Change it according to your prefs, but keep the first partitions bigger 
>than 1GB as a total, but each partition smaller than 1 GB.
>Weird sollution that helped me when I had the same problem. You could 
>find a better explanation if you search the faq.

Hmm, that might be it.  
I have 2 drives, sd0 is 1.2GB, sd1 is 2GB.  
The only "large" partition is /home on sd1 though.  
The root partition is on sd0, and it is the first unix partition on that drive.  
I thought it was just under 1GB, but I may be misremembering.  
But as per another suggestion, I am going to try to boot single-user, mount everything, and unpack the tarballs that way.  
Do these SCSI errors happen during use as well, or just during installation?

Thanks,
Tim

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