I am trying to install FC3 on a Toshiba Portege 7020CT Laptop. It has a pcmcia cdrom and the boot disks don't boot off the cdrom. It doesn't support booting off the usb either.
See the README-en on FC3 disk1 for options including pxeboot. Google.com/linux for: network aware grub boot floppy . If the machine can boot an older version of Linux already, then boot FC3-disk1:/images/boot.iso:/isolinux/vmlinuz and its corresponding initrd.img. If you are really desperate, then try loadlin from DOS. And the ultimate may be to transplant the harddrive temporarily to a "white box" machine using a 2.5-to-3.5 adaptor, do the install, then transplant the harddrive back to the laptop.
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