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.

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 ...