Problem creating boot disk/writing to MBR

[Richard Townsend <rhdt star ucl ac uk>]

Hi!

I've recently assembled a PC, and last night I was having a go at bunging
RedHat 6.0 on it. Everything seemed to go OK until I got to the bit where
one creates a boot disk. This step failed with something along the lines
of:

/bin/insmod: no such file or directory

I popped up a shell, and had a poke around. It turns out "/bin/insmod" was
a symbolic link to "install". There was no install in the /bin directory,
but there was one sitting around on the system, so I did:

ln -sf `which install` /bin/insmod

This then (apparently) got /bin/insmod working again, but when I tried
again to write the boot floppy, things fell over, with the installation
program attempting to do:

/bin/insmod /bin/insmod <some_dir>/loop.o

and getting:

insmod failed!

I'm not really sure what is going on here, but it presents a bit of a
problem to me, since I experience the same difficulties when trying to
write the MBR. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is going wrong?

For the record, my machine is as follows:
 PIII 450MHz CPU
 Abit BX6 Rev 2.0 motherboard
 128Mb RAM
 IBM Deskstar GXP22 HD (22Gb)
 Mitsumi 40x ATAPI CD-ROM
 Mitsumi 1.44Mb FDD
 Voodoo3 3000 display card
 SoundBlaster 16 PCI sound card

I would appreciate any pointers on this. By the way, I'm installing RedHat
from a "home-baked" CD-ROM rather than a boxed set one, and I didn't burn
the CD-ROM myself (so I'm not 100% sure it is all present and correct, but
pretty sure).

Many thanks,

Rich