Wimping Out On FTP Download
Now that RedHat and several individuals are offering CD's with Jes's RedHat m68k Linux, most users should buy one instead of trying to FTP all the files. This package consists of almost 625-meg of data and requires several hours to download- even through a T1-line. If your ISP rates are based upon connection time it will probably be cheaper to buy a CD.
If you are stubborn (or a developer [same thing?]) and still want to FTP the files you can save a lot of time by excluding the following subdirectories/files, however this will require manual intervention:
SRPMS All the how-to RPMs.I make no guarantees as to whether or not your particular installation will work at all if you choose to not download the entire distribution.