It might be easier to just get the install floppies off the mirror site:
ftp://ftp.codemeta.com/mirrors/redhat/distributions/old-releases/...
"Karl J. Runge" wrote:
>
> (Please forgive me for asking a question driven pure, unadulterated laziness)
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to boot a machine with a Redhat 6.1
> boot floppy and trick it into installing Redhat 5.2? For me it always
> complains the installation source doesn't look like Redhat 6.1.
>
> I ask this because I am looking at buying a laptop that has a USB
> external floppy drive. I have verified that it will boot either of the
> Redhat 5.2 and 6.1 boot floppies. I want to install Redhat 5.2 on it,
> however the Redhat 5.2 install requires a 2nd floppy (for a network
> install), and perhaps not surprisingly, linux cannot recognize and/or
> mount anything on the floppy it booted off of under these
> circumstances!
>
> I understand I can hack around this somehow by making a custom boot floppy.
> I just wanted to know if it was possible to trick the Redhat 6.1 install
> to do 5.2 instead since that would be really easy...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karl Runge
>
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