Installing Ubuntu from floppy + network

[Liam Proven]

I have an old machine I'd like to try Ubuntu on. I'm planning on
starting with a bare minimal install and adding X and so on myself, by
hand.

It's an IBM Thinkpad 701C "Butterfly" - the mini-laptop with a folding keyboard.

I used to have Debian on this machine; I know it works and can be done.

The snag is, I only have a SCSI CD-ROM drive for it, attached by a
PCMCIA SCSI card - an Adaptec/NewMedia BusToaster. (I can't remember
if this is the aha152x_cs or sym53c500_cs version. I have a nasty
feeling it's the latter.)

Additionally, I only have PCMCIA Ethernet: a 3Com 3C589. The machine
doesn't have built-in Ethernet.

So I need a boot floppy that can load enough of Ubuntu to activate
either my SCSI card and SCSI CD, or my 3Com Ethernet.

Is this doable, or should I be looking at using Loadlin from DOS, or
should I just stick with Debian?

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