Just as followup, I since discovered (by reading the manual, no less!)
that RedHat ships an image of a reasonable root filesystem on the
6.0 CD-ROM. Just: dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/rescue.img of=/dev/fd0
Here is what they include:
./bin/ash ./bin/mknod ./etc/mtab
./bin/badblocks ./bin/modprobe ./etc/protocols
./bin/cat ./bin/mount ./etc/services
./bin/chmod ./bin/mt ./etc/termcap
./bin/chroot ./bin/mv ./lib/ld-2.1.1.so
./bin/cp ./bin/open ./lib/libc-2.1.1.so
./bin/cpio ./bin/pico ./lib/libcom_err.so.2.0
./bin/dd ./bin/ping ./lib/libdb1-2.1.1.so
./bin/df ./bin/ps ./lib/libe2p.so.2.3
./bin/e2fsck ./bin/rm ./lib/libext2fs.so.2.4
./bin/fdisk ./bin/route ./lib/libnsl-2.1.1.so
./bin/grep ./bin/rpm ./lib/libnss_dns-2.1.1.
./bin/gzip ./bin/sed ./lib/libnss_files-2.1.
./bin/head ./bin/swapon ./lib/libproc.so.2.0.0
./bin/ifconfig ./bin/sync ./lib/libtermcap.so.2.0
./bin/init ./bin/tac ./lib/libuuid.so.1.2
./bin/insmod ./bin/tail ./lib/libz.so.1.1.3
./bin/ln ./bin/tar ./usr/lib/rpm/macros
./bin/ls ./bin/traceroute ./usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt
./bin/lsmod ./bin/umount ./usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc
./bin/mkdir ./etc/fstab ./usr/share/terminfo/l/
./bin/mke2fs
Thanks to Doc, Jack, and Matt for their suggestions (already CCed to
the list) for good boot/root floppies.
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