> But now comes the hard part: I have 29 meg root partition, the
> documaentation says i need atleast 10 meg, and recommends
> atleast 20 meg..  I thought i was safe. BUT: the base.tar is 42
> meg, not 21 as said in teh documentation, and hence i ran out
> of diskspace at about half the file..

# ftp somehost
...
ftp> lcd /mnt
ftp> get base.tar "| tar xfp -"

ought to work to get around that particular problem, although you
need to make sure you have the "will be /usr" file system mounted
at /mnt/usr before starting that.  I'll mention a few more
details directly to Ronny.

- H=E5vard