I've got a laptop with Win2k on it, and I want to install Linux. Trouble is, there's no (working) bootable device on the thing except the hard drive. No floppy, no cdrom, no network boot, nothing but ...
OK, I had to put XP on a partition for some of my software and of course it overwrote the MBR (and the bastard wiped a 40 GB movie and music partition too!). I put in my bootdisk to get back to linux ...