OEL Install without CD-ROM

I'd like to do a fresh install of OEL 5 on an old Toshiba laptop that I no longer have a CD-ROM for.
Any suggestions?
- Boot over network? Not really sure how to set up the boot agent on the Toshiba.
- It has a second hard drive that I could boot from. Maybe I could dd if=<OEL>.iso of=/dev/sdc and then boot from that drive to get things kicked off
- Could I just copy the contents of the CD locally? Or start the installation over a network mount?
Thx

Don't think I can use a USB as I have no option to boot from it.
This worked for me since I already had a working Linux installation.
http://www.instantfundas.com/2007/08/install-any-linux-distro-directly-from.html
Grabbed the kernel and ramdisk from the new distro and added the grub entry for it.
Tried copying the distro to the local disk but couldn't get the installer to find it there for some reason. Was also given the option of nfs & ftp for the entire distro so went with ftp and it worked perfectly.
Edited by: user548025 on May 7, 2010 6:58 AM

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