Dear Heiko, and other DL helpers,
My problem, yes MY problem, is solved.
Postmortem: During initial boot startup of any of the three
(i486,i586,i686) V1.2.10 versions, the PC was finding a leftover,
unintended copy of etctar.bz2 on the hard drive in a leftover partition
that was id'd by DL as part1. The harddrive was going to be blown away,
and supposedly only contained an NTFS partition, but apparently an old
FAT32 partition was also on the drive and was scanned and found. Using
a DOS boot disk allowed me to rename the etctar.bz2 MSDOS filename to
something that can't be mistaken for a config package file by DL.
The longish string device id of the hard drive (/dev/bus/lu/part) was
too similar to the CD-ROM id and I simply didn't notice the difference
as the messages flew by... After all, what could possibly go wrong at
that point in the boot? Answer: Plenty!
Many thanks that you are all there to help when the unusual errors happen.
-John.
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