I bought an old laptop from the Agora recently and it arrived today. I want to install Linux onto it but the catch is it dosan't have a CD-Rom or Floppy drive. All I have is a network connection. What ...

I have a X20 IBM laptop, and was going to install Red hat on it since I knew I could copy the iso's on a fat partition and boot the boot disk kernel, also on the fat partition, through grub.

Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering environments, and they packed in a surprising amount of useful stuff. But a version ...