Building a system up from scratch

["David Spencer" <DWSPENCE UK oracle com>]

I'd like to build a Red Hat 6 system up from the ground - I have
a PC with a freshly formatted hard disk, a pair of Red Hat 5.2 boot
disks and a Losedows box connected to the internet.  Initially I'll
need to add stuff through the floppy drive but will want to connect
the Linux box to the network ASAP for direct downloading.

I *could* install a temporary version of Linux on the Losedows PC
but would prefer not to.  (Not least because I haven't got a spare
partition for it, and that Linux-on-DOS biz really doesn't appeal to me).

Any advice on how to proceed?  Does anyone know of any notes out there?
I've looked through the howtos but not found anything obvious.

Yes, I know I could bung in the CD and hit 'Install' but I'd like to know
more fully what's going on and have full control over exactly what is there.
Or is RedHat moving away from this sort of approach towards the brain dead
'sit there and press return when the computer tells you to' approach taken by
another operating system I could mention, and I need to be looking at another
distribution?

I'm not that bothered about compiling everything that I load up on the
box; I might tackle that one later.  For now I just want to build the
system up file-by-file (preferably with RPM of course).

Thanks in advance for any pointers,
Dave.