[RULE] install guide-What to download

[Richard Kweskin]

Where and what to download

http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rule/

Start with this url. From there choose one of the two installers. Miniconda 
versions 0.8.0, 0.7.3, 0.7.2 work with Redhat 8.0, 7.3, 7.2 respectively. 
Slinky works with all of the above Redhat versions so just select the highest 
number version available.

Miniconda

There are two different installers on offer, Miniconda and Slinky. Miniconda 
is a substitute for Anaconda, the Redhat installer. The interface is the text 
mode of Anaconda but the options for what packages to install have been well 
pruned, giving you a much smaller footprint to start off with. Even if you 
choose X window and KDE options you still have a smaller footprint than what 
Redhat's stock installer would have put. Also, Miniconda runs in as little as 
16 MB (some of us have done it with 12 MB.) As with the stock Ananconda, 
Miniconda comes in different flavors of floppy boot images:

1 - boot.img is the one most people want since it is designed to boot from the
floppy drive and setup the drivers to recognize the cd-rom or dvd drive and
use the Redhat cd's to install from - much like a windows startup disk. There
is no moment when you have to type the command "startup" it just does it. The
questions asked are nearly the same as Redhat's stock questions. This image
is also the one to use if you have the Redhat packages already on your hard
drive and you intend using these rather than any Redhat cd's.

2 - bootnet.img is for a floppy boot disk for a computer that is not going to
have the Redhat cd's in its own drive. The options are, as in Ananconda, nfs
(i.e. the computer has a network card and is wired to a local area network,
lan, and will try to find the Redhat cd's on another computer on the same
lan) http (i.e. the computer is wired to an internet or intranet and will
connect to a web page to find the Redhat packages) or ftp (i.e. the computer
is wired to an internet or lan with a ftp server and will connect by ftp to
the packages.)

3 - pcmcia.img is for a floppy boot disk for a computer as in 2 above but its
modem or network card is a pcmcia or pc card (laptops that don't have a
useable built-in modem or network card but do have a pcmcia slot use this.)
If you need pcmcia.img as the boot floppy, then you will also need 
pcmciadd.img as a driver disk.

Pick one of the three above as your disk 1. Disk 2 is the updates.img. The 
other floppy disk images not yet mentioned provide additional drivers for 
less usual hardware. Most users do not require them.

Slinky

A bootable cd image is available (slinky-{$version}.iso) which contains all 
the contents of both floppy.img files, the kernel modules, and the Redhat 
kernel package necessary for 486s. If you will not boot from the cd, then get 
the slinky-{$version}.img file which provides the initial boot floppy for all 
other install options. If you will not use the cd image at all then also get 
the disk2.img file.


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