Hooray ! Despite the many postings re glitches, features, bugs, etc.,
both 0.97 boot-image and root-image work;
In addition to boot screen announcements of hd0 etc etc the following
graced my screen 
        sd0 @ scsi0 ID0 lun0
        sd1 @ scsi0 ID4 lun0
        sd0 p.1 start    32 size 51168 end 51199
            p.2 start 51200 size 40960 end 92159
        sd1 p.1 start    32 size 20448 end 20479
            p.2 start 20480 size 20480 end 4085?
and so with fear and trembling i interpreted sd1 p.1 as sdb1 & used
mkfs -c /dev/sdb1 10000
when asked for /usr in the [excellent] install script.
SO, the guts went on hda1 and the /usr stuff on /dev/sdb1 [AKA /usr].
While this may be OBVIOUS to the cognescenti, perhaps my experience
will be helpful to the less fortunate...
BTW, i KNEW that my first SCSi drive was employed elsewhere as
was the second half of sd1;  apparently the size reported is in
blocks of 512 bytes, wheres linux uses 1024 byte/block...
KUDOS to the SCSI freaks at woz etc.
...and KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING

Peter Fillingham [keeper of the DDEBs]      <<fillingham@att.com>>