I tried a fresh install of 1.1 Beta using the 11 June 1996 disks. The installation disks worked quite well, including modules configuration. The core dump in configuring the net/ modules is indeed gone. My /etc/modules file is also now properly populated with the modules I selected. Good job. Thanks.
My remaining complaints are two-fold: 1. My PS/2 mouse no longer works. I'll try to track this down today. 2. Several packages in the buzz/ directory probably ought to be updated. In particular, I find dselect-1.2.6 much nicer than 1.2.3. Less important, but more jarring, is that the system is installed with kernel 2.0.0, but all the devel/ stuff is still 1.99.7.