Apparently my problem was either one of these two things - I've no idea which:
1. I had somehow put the resc1440.bin image onto a floppy with some sort of physical defect which was not detected anywhere in the creation or install process. A more meaningful error message, other than simply that the "failed to extract" would be helpful. 2. I had somehow put the wrong resc1440.bin image onto the floppy and it didn't contain the program to extract the .tgz tarred and gnu-zipped base system. I believe this is possible because there are multiple different resc1440.bin files. I would strongly recommend a unique name for each floppy image - even if in different directories. -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
