readme.txt.gz is an ascii version (unedited output fm dvi2tty)
    of the documentation that's in milieu.tar.gz
    rootboot is a bootable root disk 
    root.tar.gz has all the basic files (including tcp/ip)
       (/boot has a kernel & lilo files, /conf/bin/lilo uses
        /etc/lilo.conf)
      edit /book/rc.inet and move it to /etc and reboot;
      if all goes well, you can then ftp the following straight
      from Linux:
    usrTeX.tar.gz has TeX and LaTeX & misc. utils
    usrlib.tar.gz had Gcc, etc.
    usrX11.tar.gz has X-no server tho; get the server you need from
       tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/packages/X11/XFree86-2.0

  the TeX binaries here (and in the SLS tex archives) are based
on web2c-5.851d. that package is for TeX 3.141 and METAFONT 2.71 see
the diffs file for updates. gcc 2.4.5 used with libc 4.4.4.
  you may also want the Postscript version of standard TeX fonts 
in the parent dir (tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/TeX).
  the actual TeX and METAFONT programs are changing very little nowdays-
Knuth has pronounced them complete. thus the Linux TeX archives are 
not apt to change frequently. (the main area of activity is the 
forthcoming LaTeX 3 macro package, but that has nothing to do with
compilation, etc for Linux. rather ftp to pip.shsu.edu and get whatever
macro packages you need). nevertheless, i like to think the binaries here 
are uptodate. if that's not the case, let me know.

 thomas (tdunbar@vtaix.cc.vt.edu or http://milieu.grads.vt.edu/ )