"Douglas S. Meade" wrote:

> 4. With smallnet.ecoff, and the root file system from diskimage.tgz,
> you can get into sysinst, and start setting up a hard disk, but when
> I got to the point where it tries to do:
>  "pax -X -r -w -pe / /mnt
>
> pax dies with the error: "pax: File /tmp/.nfsA00394.4 was modified
>   during copy to /mnt/tmp.nfsA00394.4", and sysinst drops back into
>   the introductory menu".

This is a known bug with 'pax'.  The workaround is to put 'diskimage' in
your server root; then exit from sysinst after netbooting, and use 'dd' to
install the diskimage.

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Philip J. Tait.....AlliedSignal Engines, Phoenix, Az.....pjt@phxase.allied.com