>I just pulled current source down and will try it again tomorrow when I can
>sit in front of the console.  Farewell.

Oh!

The problem is that the *miniroot* hasn't been rebuilt in ages.  I've
just been rebuilding diskimage.tar.gz, which is a disk image of a full
root filesystem.  That's much more convenient than dealing with
miniroots for almost everyone.

(The exceptions are those people with root-filesystem disks that are
smaller than 32 Mbytes. I'd advise such people to do a diskless
install and then tailor a local root filesystem.)