Finding-files

Last Update: 6 June 1999

Finding The Files

Most of the material in this Install FAQ assumes you will be using RedHats Rough Cuts cdrom. This section provides additional info in case you have a very fast Internet connection (T1 or better) or need to download additional files not found on the RedHat m68k Linux cdroms.

The entire RedHat m68k Linux disk image occupies approximately 625 Mb. Even if you choose not to download some of the directories (such as SRPMS), this is still a lot of information to be downloading across the Internet. Don't even try doing this unless you have a very fast internet connection, even so your network administrator may come hunting for you when he sees a single user occupying > 90% of his network bandwidth for over three hours.

If you have a RedHat m68k Linux CDROM you can skip this section. Some of the non-RedHat CDs may be missing a few files, so you might want to refer to this section to locate them.

RedHat m68k Linux and a multitude of programs and utilities can be found on Aminet, the m68k Linux archive at Sunsite ( auc.dk ), and the RedHat m68k archive.

Aminet [searchtool] [mirrors] [anonymous FTP] (USA)
Aminet [searchtool] [mirrors] [anonymous FTP] (Germany)
m68k Linux Archive [mirrors] (USA)
m68k Linux Archive [mirrors] (Germany)
RedHat m68k Archive (FTP, Denmark), RedHat m68k Archive (HTTP, Denmark)
RedHat m68k mirror (FTP, Italy) , RedHat m68k mirror (HTTP, Italy)
RedHat m68k mirror (FTP, USA)

As shown above, Aminet and the m68k Linux archive have several mirror sites.

Note that www.redhat.com does NOT mirror the current RedHat m68k Linux files.

One useful utility that I found on Aminet is File2Disk. This programs allows you to create the supplemental diskette required during the Linux installation process.

File2Disk.lha ( alternate ) - AmigaDos program used to create the supplemental RedHat install diskette.

Another program that you should already have is Lha. This program is used to decompress file archives, such as File2Disk above.

lha ( alternate ) - A great AmigaDos file compression/decompression utility.

Although not necessary, this program might be of help for some users.

untgz ( alternate ) - An AmigaDos program to extract Unix tar/gz files.

If you choose to download RedHat m68k Linux from one of the FTP sites you can save a lot of work and typing by following this simple procedure:

  Login to one of the RedHat m68k Linux FTP sites and cd to the redhat directory.
  Download all files and subdirectories by specifying redhat-5.1.tar as the filename.
  Most webrowsers can download the entire tar archive if you specify the filename by typing it from the keyboard in the filename (URL) area of the browser. Simply add .tar to the filename. ( Example: redhat-5.1.tar )

Note: unfortunately some FTP sites do not support recursive .tar download, however sunsite.auc.dk does.