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 ...

Here's what happened. Dual booting WinXP and RH8, everything worked great, until I booted up into XP's recovery console, did a fixmbr (meant to do it on a different drive with a different problem) on ...

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 ...