Your distribution may include boot and supplemental disks. If not, your first task is to create a boot disk, which you will use during installation. You will also need a supplemental disk if you are not doing a CD or NFS install. These must be 1.44 M 3.5 inch floppies. The disk images for these disks are located under the images directory on the CD or in the directory where you FTP'ed the distribution. If you have DOS installed on your computer you can boot the installation utility from the CD with the command:
\dosutils\autoboot
Please note that at install time there are some limits placed on the filesystems supported by the kernel. However, after installation there is support for all file systems available under Linux. At install time the modularized kernel has support for (E)IDE devices, (including ATAPI CD-ROM drives), SCSI adapters, and network cards. Additionally, all mice, SLIP, CSLIP, PPP, PLIP, FPU emulation, console selection, ELF, SysV IPC, IP forwarding, firewalling and accounting, reverse ARP, QIC tape and parallel printers, are supported.
After the installation is complete you may want to rebuild a kernel that includes support only for your hardware. See section 5.2 for information on how to build a customized kernel.