all is now clear.  the problem was that i didn't understand
how the net install worked.  the missing files turned out to
be on later disks (this came to me at 0400 this morning), so
substituting the other iso's in sucsession on the source
machine seems to be working fine.

sorry to trouble you.

tnx,
dan

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