You need to get the file mini-RHCL.tar.gz. It is under 20M and contains
a minimal amount to install linux. It does not include X windows. You
can find it at one of the ftp sites above.
To get it, do the following:
cd /tmp
mkdir work
cd work
ftp your.favorite.ftp.site (See the above section for mirrors)
cd into
the distribution directory and then into the images/1211 directory.
Now get the image.idx file. Exit ftp (or just escape back) and look
at the image.idx file. You'll see something like the following:
0000; None; None; IDE/ATAPI or SCSI
0001; None; None; Mitsumi (not IDE/ATAPI), Sony CDU31A/CDU33A/CDU535
.
.
.
Find the line that most closely matches your hardware and record the number. Then get back into FTP where you were found the image.idx file and download the corresponding boot image (bootXXXX.img where XXXX is the number you recorded).
You should now have the following:
/tmp/work/mini-RHCL.tar.gz /tmp/work/bootXXXX.tar
You need a free partition to unpack the tar file to. It should be somewhere around 20M in size or larger. Make the partition and then make an ext2 file system on it. Now, mount that partition somewhere like /mnt/temp. You can then do:
cd /mnt/temp
gunzip /tmp/work/mini-RHCL.tar.gz
tar xvf /tmp/work/mini-RHCL.tar
cp /tmp/work/bootXXXX.img images
Note: If you are doing an NFS install of the FTP'ed media, just create a directory for it somewhere on the server, unpack the file (like the above example) and export that directory.
To make the images, you need to use dd under Linux. You would
need to do the following:
cd /mnt/temp/images
dd of=/dev/fd0 if=rootdisk.img
(swap floppy disks and label)
dd of=/dev/fd0 if=bootXXXX.img
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