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I am having trouble running the installtion routine using the floppy images. 
I wrote both images to floppies (after ungzipping the first). The floppy 
with the kernel boots fine and brings up the prompt to select where the 
tarfile holding the installtion program is. I select floppy (option 3) and 
it begins to load the tarfile.

Unfortunately, at this point I eventually get messages about /inst being 
full. This is on a DTKstation/Classic+ (or something like that) with 16MB of 
ram. Shouldn't the installation have enough memory for mfs file systems to 
hold the tarball's contents? What is going wrong? Also, even though the 
tarball is correctly written onto the floppy (a formatted, error-free 
floppy) tar and gzip sometimes complain about end of archive or output ended 
or some similar message (I am sorry I cannot be more specific but I don't 
have the system up to get the exact messages [it is currently limited to a 
serail console as its only outside connection]). The floppy is fine because 
I can extract the files with no errors on my laptop by using 'tar zxf 
/dev/rfd0a'.

I have looked in the tarfile and its the total size is ~3.5 MB uncompressed. 
Any suggestions? I only want to run the installation routines because I may 
need to do some repairs on the hard disk (the kernel on it seems to have 
been corrupted because it doesn't boot at all but just causes a loop like a 
soft reset). If there are "rescue" floppy images otherwise available I will 
try those.

Thanks in advance for any responses and please remember to CC me in your 
reply.

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