When you say there is no floppy disk, do you mean you do not have a disk, or something is wrong with the floppy drive? If it has a floppy drive, and if you could purchase a floppy disk somewhere (walmart, office depot, staples, etc) you'd be in luck.
Older laptops/computers cannot boot from a bootable cd, which presents a problem when trying to get a newer OS (such as linux) installed. A while back, I ran into a similar problem. I ran across 'Smart Boot Manager' which is a bootable floppy disk that allows you to boot media such as cd-roms and usb drives on older computers that cannot. There site is located here:
http://btmgr.webframe.org/ It appears their site is down at the moment, but you should be able to acces it via
google's cache. Anyway, try that, see if it helps any.
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I heard about this network install, or something like that, but I have no idea what this means.
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A network install is essentially using a live linux system (ie: from either a cd, floppy, or usb drive) to boot a computer. The live system is small, usually only large enough to containt the tools needed to partition the disk and start the ftp/ssh installation. More information can be found here:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Network-Install-HOWTO.html