>My problem with *that* was that I was installing on an existing 1.3
>system, and it wouldn't copy more than about 2 megabytes from the CD to
>a disk without inducing a reboot (no panic, no traceback, just alakazam!
>and you're rebooting).  (Well, actually, it's a 1.2G system, but *that*
>wouldn't mount the CD, so I dug up a 1.3 kernel and booted that just for
>the purpose of getting the tgz files off the CD.  That's how I found out
>1.3 wouldn't copy off the CD without rebooting.  I wound up using the
>1.3 kernel to mount the CD and FTP'd the diskimage.gz file to another
>asystem so I could FTP it back onto a disk and then dd it onto my install
>disk.  I had lots more fun than you might at first expect :-).

I dont get it. Once you'd gotten a 1.3 kernel running, you should be
able to mount the CD as an is09660 filesystem (right?) and do the
install that way, using the "already mounted" filesystem.

The other dirty trick is to booth the disklimage, make a symlink in
/dev for /dev/cd0 -> /dev/rz4a (or do a mknod) and then run sysinst,
telling it to use the CD. If you can mount the CD in the first place,
that should work.  Right?