i have an old toshiba tecra 730cdt, and i have read that linux can be installed onto it. however all there guides seem to involve having both a floppy and a cd connected at the same time, or a bootable cd drive - i have neither. I have both the cd and floppy drives, as well as an external adapter, but for one reason or another, the external adaptor doesnt seem to work.
therefore i need some way of being able to boot the cd from the hdd. at the moment it is running win98se, but this is quite slow and unstable, and there isnt much space left on a 2.1gb hard drive.

any help would be appreciated!
thanks in advance...
george