I just told a friend who is going out to buy a floppy disc so he can boot into a minimal dos environment about one time I had to do a crazy hack network install to an old Vaio laptop that had neither floppy or cdrom, just a gimped install of debian or slackware or something. I had to change the boot image to a floppy image of the distro I wanted to enable a network install that would also make the laptop more useable again. I think I had to copy over the image from a usb disc (it didn’t support usb boot), boot into that, and then mount the install image I wanted over the network or something crazy. Been a while.

Anyway, I felt pretty leet for a moment. Then I realized all I did was use Google.

-sigh-