For those concerned with the installation process: "We" need to check for a partition which is TOO SMALL before attempting to copy up the operating system. Otherwise, we go 'round and 'round without any indication that we have been parked in orbit, or why. This is especially critical when we have a large disk which gets a small boot partition. One intuits that one is supposed to put the operating system mount point on it, instead of the larger real o.s. partition. Otherwise, things went pretty smooth so far. - Thanks!