After increasing the size of my personal storage file 3-times, rebooting - as required - between each, I finally got almost all the way through when confronted with this:
QUESTIONS:gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
lampp/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/PerlIO/
lampp/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/PerlIO/encoding/
lampp/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/PerlIO/encoding/encoding.so
lampp/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/PerlIO/encoding/encoding.bs
lampp/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/PerlIO/scalar/
lampp/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/PerlIO/scalar/scalar.so
lampp/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/PerlIO/scalar/scalar.bs
lampp/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/PerlIO/via/
lampp/lib/perl5/5.10.1/i686-linux/auto/PerlIO/via/via.so
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
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1. Is there an obvious solution to this problem?
2. Is it really necessary to stuff this in /opt rather than in /mnt/savestuff/xampp and symlink it?
3. The instructions say that the php scripts must all be stored in htdocs in the lampp directory - which would appear to further bloat the size of my personal storage file.
All I needed was a simple PET or SFS to handle the installation of a commonly-needed MySQL database ... sigh.