[lug] notebook boot problems

[Ken Kinder]

I have an old Red Hat 7.0 installation on my notebook, I'd like to replace 
with something my current. The problem is, boot disks no longer seem to work 
properly. On BOTH Red Hat 7.2 and SuSE 7.3, after loading the kernel I just 
get this over and over:

	CPU#0: Machine Check Exception: 0x 106E80 (typ e0x    9).

Could my floppy drive be bad? The kernel works fine from my Red Hat 7.0 
installation.

How could I install a new version without using my floppy? I don't have a 
bootable CDROM on this thing. (it's old, 333mhz)