"BAD PENGUIN"(d) @1996-2001 by Antonio Gallo Mon Jun 4 12:04:56 2001 * installation, first stage * The first stage install program is located into the stage1.img file. This is a 1440k floppy image mad with syslinux, it is basically an ms-dos formatted disketted with a kernel and with a gzipped filesystem. When syslinux is executed when the floppy boot it unzipp the filesystem into the memory (ramdisk) and execute the linuxrc binary (caronte). The now caronte is in touch of managing your system. Caronte do the following job: - scan PCI hardware - scan your HD and cdrom partitions and try to found where is the distribution to be installed - it mount the distribution under /mnt/source - then try to locate image2.img, this is an uncompressed ext2 filesystem with all the file to install the distribution upon your system - this image is mounted, using a loopback interface, under /mount/local that will become a symlink from /usr/local in order to use all the files under of it ...TODO... Antonio Gallo