[RULE] install guide-Miniconda general

[Richard Kweskin]

Miniconda general instructions

Once the issue of free space on one or more hard drives has been resolved and 
any backing-up of existing data is out of the way, it is time to boot the 
computer with one of the boot floppies. Do not boot from Redhat's cd1 as that 
takes you straight into Ananconda, the stock installer. Regardless of which 
boot disk has been used the following information applies:

Acceptable parameters

By typing

        linux updates [enter]

at the boot: prompt instructs the installer to prompt for an updates disk. 
This disk is essential as it provides the means to work with well pruned 
lists of packages resulting in a lean, efficient system with a smaller 
footprint.

By typing

        linux dd updates [enter]

at the boot: prompt instructs the installer to prompt for a drivers disk as 
well as the updates disk (e.g. booting from pcmcia.img you need pcmciadd as a 
drivers disk.)

By typing

        linux dd updates mem=12M [enter]

or

        linux updates mem=12M [enter]

you are adding the instruction that there are 12 MB of RAM available. 
Usually, you need to specify the mem=xM parameter only if you want to restrict
the RULE installer to less RAM than the computer really has, for example for 
testing. According to our testing so far 12 MB is the lowest number the
installation process will work with properly.

Keyboard shortcuts

To go from one field to the next just hit [Tab]. To go back either go round or
use [Shift][Tab]. To select/deselect a choice hit the [Space] bar. To confirm 
a screen and accept all it's settings move to [OK] with [Tab] and hit [Enter]

While the installer is proceeding on the view provided by tty1 [Alt][F1] two 
other views are also possible: tty3, use [Alt][F3], shows a running log of 
the system and tty4, use [Alt][F4], shows a log from the kernel.

Then follow the installer through the usual Red Hat installation process. In
the end you will have a minimal Red Hat Linux system installed.