resurrecting old machines

["Nabeel S. Kandah" <nkandah ipass net>]

I was wondering if someone could give me some pointers in doing some
very spare installations of redhat on some old machines. These computers
kicking around in my classroom are 386DX - 40s and two 486 class
machines with between 4 and 20 MB RAM. They have no working cdroms, so I
was thinking about ftp installations. I tried it one time, using the
supplementary disk you need for ftp installation, and I got to the point
where it asked me for the exact ftp address, but try as I might I
couldn't deduce the proper ftp directory. Is there an easier way to plop
redhat on these machines? I have a budding group of students who are
interested in starting a computer club and they like the idea of
building a mini network in my classroom with legacy machines. There is
one working redhat machine in the classroom. Could this be used to
install redhat on the rest of them?

Thank you advance

Nabeel S. Kandah
nkandah ipass net