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Re:4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a sma... by ForHackernews on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:08AM (#14601839)
A lot of older hardware designed for office use supports booting over ethernet using PXE[0]. You can set up a PXE server, and then configure the BIOS to "Boot over network". (Assuming it's not _so_ old it lacks an ethernet adapter)

It's a bit of a hassle, but at east it doesn't require burning physical media.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment

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