1 If you need a boot disk for network type installations, you will have to create one. See section 2.5 for that informtaion.
2 If you will be using a PCMCIA device during the install you will need to create a PCMCIA support disk. Section 2.6 will describe how that disk is made.
3 No guessing allowed!
4 To do this, you'll need to create a rescue diskette from the rescue.img image contained in the images directory of your Red Hat Linux CD-ROM. Appendix B explains how to do this.
5 One could argue that it's pretty much the same thing.
6 It also controls which filesystems are automatically mounted when the system is booted.
7 Inodes really are consistently-sized, unlike our illustrations. Also, keep in mind that an average disk drive contains thousands of inodes. But for the purposes of this discussion, please ignore these minor discrepancies.
8 Well, it should be...
9 Just kidding -- thank you Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Telephone Laboratories for your inspired operating system design!