INST0066 now has an installer that lets you install it across the network. If it works (it works for me, on my own network, but I've not tested it across the public net yet) and no really horrible things are discovered, I think I'm going to make it the final 0066 and go on to better things. INST0066 has been squashed and massaged to make it more likely that I can fit the 2.6 kernel (provided that you can configure it without using stupid vanity languages) into the boot floppy, and that may be INST0067.

BETA0066 is now available. This no longer has gcc 2.95.2, but libc 5 is still dead and some packages have been updated to newer versions of the code.

To install Mastodon images, you need a cd writer, a blank CD, a floppy disk, and a machine with a bootable cdrom drive that can run the Intel 386 version of Linux. To do the install, do

1. Download the image (this may take a while; it took me 10 hours to copy INST0063 over an ISDN line -- you may not want to even think about it if you're using a 56k modem connection.)
2. Use cdwrite or cdrecord to write it to the blank CD.
3. If your machine is not capable of booting from the CD, copy the bootdisk image from the CD to a floppy disk (via RAWRITE.EXE from DOS, or dd if from Unix)
4. Turn the machine on, insert the CD (and floppy, if needed), and follow the prompts.
5. You're done. Enjoy!

INST0064 is also available. This version had, among other things, gcc updated to 2.95.2, which means that a lot of things just stopped working. You really don't want to use this one, but it's here as an historical exhibit.

INST0063 is also available. This version still uses gcc 2.7.2.3 for everything.