The base disks are created by the scripts in the boot-floppies package.
You can install that and study the stuff in /usr/src/boot-floppies.
For 1.3, you should generally only need the "rescue" floppy if you can get
the rest of the FTP archive off of a hard disk, NFS, or CD. The rescue
floppy is an MS-DOS filesystem with a SysLinux boot block. It contains
"linux", the operating system kernel, and "root.bin", the root ram-disk
image. Root.bin is a gzip-compressed 1.4MB Minix filesystem that is loaded
into RAM at boot time.
Bruce
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