I'm trying to install Potato on a Quadra 700 (8 Mb RAM, 80 Mb internal hard drive with A/UX Root partition 47 Mb and A/UX Swap partition 16 Mb) using macinstall.tgz and base2_2.tgz on the Mac partition of my internal hard drive. After I launch Penguin 18, everything goes well until I reach Install the Base System. After I choose that, the installer says that it's decompressing base2_2.tgz, and there's a lot of disc activity for several minutes, after which the standard message about checking the state of the system flashes on very briefly and then the installer menu reappears, but the highlighted selection has dropped back to the previous install step (Configure the Network) instead of proceeding to the next one (Configure the Base System). If I then scroll ahead in the installer menu and choose Configure the Base System, I get a message to the effect that I have to install the base system before it can be configured. But if I go back and choose Install the Base System again, I get a message saying that it appears that I installed one previously, and recommending against an overwrite. If I launch a shell at this point, so that I can see a directory of the Root partition, it looks like the base system is there. It's taken considerable effort to learn my way through previous difficulties and be able to reach this point (due to my general unfamiliarity and some problems with a flaky Cobra external drive, not to any software deficiencies), and I don't want to give up now. Any suggestions much appreciated.
Bob
