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 ...

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.

i have mandrake 8.1 on cd, but the pc i want to put it on (comcrap) boots off the floppy at startup (and i can't get into the bios cuz i installed a new hdd which i did not put compaqs setup utility ...