K well I resolved the kernel oops by fdisk reinstall, reinitalized using mac os 9.1
recreated my mirror directory for mdk, did the gen distrib, a few things complained about dependencies. started a graphical install, got all the way to choosing package groups, and got the following error when attempting to install packages via ftp. error ordering package list: cannot open Requirename index using db3 - No such file or directory (2) any clues? -- 10:12pm up 2 days, 3:43, 9 users, load average: 2.68, 2.30, 1.62
