Given the setup below, can I find what I need on the net and do an install,
or do I need to reinstall the old system hard disk to pull stuff off of?
Or can I not get there from here (I'm thinking net install, once I've pulled
an i386 snapshot onto my Mac).

Gateway 2000 486/33 with:
  New Seagate 2.1GB hard disk (installation tested with Seagate's Disk
    Wizard disk manager, so I know the disk works)
  A bootable floppy with nothing on it except what comes with format /s
  A pair of NE2000 clone ethernet cards
A Mac capable of writing to DOS floppies

TIA,
~Steve

-- 
Steve Allen - wormey@eskimo.com   http://www.eskimo.com/~wormey/   ICQ 6709819

Faith is the quality that enables you to eat blackberry jam on a picnic
without looking to see whether the seeds move.

Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly.  
It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with.
	-Kyle Hearn  <kyle@intex.net>

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on
the continuing viability of FORTRAN.
		-- Alan Perlis