Red Hat Linux 2.1/AXP
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Inc.  and others.  Please see the individual copyright notices in each
source package for distribution terms.  The distribution terms of the tools
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DIRECTORY ORGANIZATION

This directory is organized thusly:

/mnt/redhat
 |----> RedHat
          |----> RPMS             -- binary packages
          |----> SRPMS            -- source packages (missing for now)
          |----> base             -- small filesystem setup archives
          |----> instimage        -- image used for installs
          |----> sets             -- symlinks to rpms, divided by series
 |----> trees                     -- filesystems used for boot and ramdisks
 |----> images                    -- boot and ramdisk images
          |----> 1443             -- the bootdisks for this release
 |----> milo                      -- MILO images, source, and docs

The other directories that appear (including usr, sbin, bin, etc, tmp,
image, and dev) should be ignored. They are provided solely to allow the
mounting of the CD as a root filesystem.

Likewise, the .gz file in the root directory are bootable kernels that
may be booted directly from MILO.

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QUICK INSTALLATION

To install, you need to have the full RedHat tree at the top level of
something which is mountable. That "something" can be a DOS partition
(munge the long names as badly as you like), an ext2 partition, or
a NFS volume.

You also need a boot floppy and a ramdisk. The ramdisk image is in the
images directory as ramdisk.img. The bootdisk images are in images/1443.
The README in that directory descries those files in more detail.

If the bootdisks we include don't work on your system, you can create your
own bootdisk on any Linux system by following these steps:

       1) get a kernel (make it more recent then 1.4.43)
       2) mke2fs /dev/fd0 (stick a floppy in there first!)
       3) mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt
       4) copy yourkernel /mnt/vmlinux.gz
       5) umount /mnt

After you've created a boot/root disk pair, install MILO. Instructions
on how to do this are in the MILO-HOWTO available in the milo/ directory.

Once MILO is installed, boot to it and insert your bootdisk. Use this
command to boot off the bootdisk:

       boot fd0:vmlinux.gz root=/dev/fd0 ramdisk=1440

Then, follow the instructions.

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LINUX DOCUMENTATION

The 'doc' directory contains lots of useful information on linux.
There is also an HTML directory with lots of that documentation in
html format.  If you have a DOS or Windows WWW browser, you can point
them to the following files on this CDROM:

doc/HTML/index.html
doc/HTML/ldp/HOWTO-INDEX.html
doc/HTML/ldp/install-guide-2.2.2.html/gs.html

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with "subscribe" as the subject.

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RED HAT LINUX MANUAL

If you did not receive documentation with this product, you can order the
manual from the Red Hat Software. Be sure to ask for the "Alpha release
notes" as well.

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phone: (203) 454-5500
      (800) 454-5502
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