From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu,  9 Nov 1995 11:56:06 -0500
From: forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk forsyth@plan9.cs.york.ac.uk
Subject: What would cause...
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>>What would cause Installation Disk 1 to try installing
>>the files to the floppy disk instead of the hard disk?

it expects the DOS partition to start the disc.
it tries to mount /dev/hd0disk (inter alia) on /n/c
but if that fails, it continues, and since the
empty directory /n/c was left writable on the installation floppy, it writes the files there until
it runs out of space.