Make learning RTC as easy for me as learning git

I am trying to learn the source control aspects of Rational Team Concert. With any other source control system--CVS, Subversion, git--the process is simple. You set up a tiny project on your laptop with yourself as the sole user and use it to create and modify a couple of files. I installed the RTC server and client components, went to the tutorials that popped up on the Eclipse welcome screen and promptly got lost. In order to set up a simple project I needed to install an RTC server, which led me to pages about designing my network topology, at which point I gave up. I don't have a network topology, I have a single laptop. I'd like to separate heavy-duty system administration tasks from quick exploration of the product.

Is there a written tutorial that will take me step-by-step through setting up an RTC configuration on a single machine, then having a client add and change a couple of files? Something comparable in scope and simplicity to the handful of web pages in the "Git Basics" chapter of the Pro Git book?

I don't need to be sold on the RTC's distinctive features at this point. I just need some help getting past its barrier to entry, which on first glance appears higher than that of free open source competing products.