I have a X20 IBM laptop, and was going to install Red hat on it since I knew I could copy the iso's on a fat partition and boot the boot disk kernel, also on the fat partition, through grub.

This is on a Shuttle SN84G4. The RAID driver is needed to install the OS. I wasn't given any software with it, but I downloaded the driver and copied the files in the RAID directory over to a floppy ...