MINIMUM install files to download?

[Dale Mahalko <mahalkdp knight cvfn org>]

The FAQ's say I need to download the installation files for
RedHat. The problem is, there is no clear limit as to what
constitutes the "installation file set".

Does this mean absolutely everything in
  ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/redhat-6.0/i386

And if so, there is a problem.. that whole works contains
"UNIX sym links" to files elsewhere in the install set..
"../i386/misc/src/*" contains bunches of UNIX links, which
ftp.cdrom.com doesn't seem to have a clue how to handle.
Should I just get the link as a "link data file", or should
it send me the actual file the link points to? (And in any
case, some of those links don't exist on cdrom.com, but
would on the system the links would be installed onto.)

Me, I don't have a network where RedHat can download files
by itself, nor do I have a unix file system to store these
files. So if I'm putting these in an MSDOS filesystem,
isn't that going to "break" all these links?

But anyway, since this stuff in "misc/src" is all source, do
I really need any of this junk anyway, since I don't plan
to install the sourcecode?


Furthermore, is there a way to "get away" with using an
incomplete set of install files? For example, as an English
speaking Wisconsinite, it seems entirely pointless and
stupid to spend five hours downloading those how-to files
for slovokia, chinese, french, german, etc. Can I just
skip them and only get the english files?

In my attempts so far with getting only SOME files, the
installer is puking, saying "incomplete install set". Why
should it care, if I am not planning to install that
stuff anyway? Why waste another few days downloading megs
of files I'm not going to use, just so the installer can
feel all warm and happy about being able to find useless
files I don't want or need?


And one other thing. Though RedHat may be freely available
it is not exactly easy to get off the FTP, nor is the
download info all that clear. Of the FTP sites listed,
there is absolutely no "location" information about WHERE
those FTP sites are geographicly. After trying to guess
a few times where an FTP site may happen to be, I just
gave up and went with one I know.. ftp.cdrom.com. That FTP
mirror listing needs geographical info added for it to be
useful in reducing load on the Internet..

-Dale