I've got a laptop with Win2k on it, and I want to install Linux. Trouble is, there's no (working) bootable device on the thing except the hard drive. No floppy, no cdrom, no network boot, nothing but ...

I think from my recollection you can use the Redhat and/or Fedora CD#1 to boot into rescue mode then follow directions from there.... Basically once you boot into rescue mode, you would have to mount ...