Okay I have shortened my exported dir to 15 characters and all is working well, 
kind of - I netboot and get to the # prompt, run sysinst but just before the 
disklabel stage it kicks up an error on writing /etc/fstab.  It seems that I 
can't write to the nfs dir at all, despite having exported it with (rw) mode.
This is strange as a .cshrc and .profile does exist on the nfs drive.  I saw 
some message about not logging in as root, instead to use su, but I can do 
neither - do I have to login as a user in order to run sysinst successfully?

All the best,

John.
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