Installing via NFS - I think?

[AG <computing.account@googlemail.com>]

Hi all

I'm happy to follow up with the relevant reading, but I want some help 
in defining the question so that I know what it is that I am looking at:

I have an old laptop that runs Slackware 10.1 and its CD-R is kaput, and 
Slackware 10.1 was not, at the time that I ran it, configured for USBs.  
I can access the laptop via fish.

I want to install Debian on the laptop but it looks like the only way 
into that machine is via an eth0, but how would I do that?  Do I load 
Debian via fish (or something more appropriate) and then boot up into it?

Anyway, if someone can point me in the direction of docs that concern 
what I am looking for, that would be great.

Thanks

AG