After a painstaking, hours-long network install, I found the system to be
quite slo, so I tried to set si_options = 3 as in the instructions.
I suspected something was odd when gdb said it could find no debugging
symbols, but I followed the instructions to the letter. The result: when I
rebooted, the filesystem was so corrupt I couldn't recover a thing with
fsck. I had to start installing again -- a multi-step process since, as
mentioned an earlier message, I had to use Sun's MUNIX to get the miniroot
loaded from tape.

What went wrong? Dare I try again?

--Brett