Old laptop, serial cable

["Steven Fullmer" <Steven_Fullmer tni com>]

I have successfully installed RH 8 on a 2600+ AMD computer at home.  Now I have acquired an old laptop with no CDROM support... (I'm surprised that it even runs!)

It is an IBM 486sx Thinkpad, 8 MB RAM and 117 MB HD, running Win 3.1 on MSDOS 5.02 (ouch!).  It has no CDROM drive, but it has a 3 1/2" floppy and serial/parallel cable ports.

I'm still new at *nix commands so want to use it for learning.  I don't know anything at all about installing, so would like to know if it's possible to set this machine up as a test station.  I believe that I can use the serial/parallel cable ports to install from the ISOs on my AMD machine but don't know how to do it.  Will it involve a bootdisk and a couple cables?  Of course, I can answer any questions you have, since this may be as clear as mud :-)

Steven