Boot with 1.44" Floppy, then net install from thumb drive?

[M de Luis]

My old NEC Versa P440 laptop computer has no working CD drive, and can't boot off a USB thumb drive. It does have a USB connected 1.44" floppy drive that came with a rescue disk, so I believe that it may be able to boot off that.
 
Okay then, how do I make a 1.44" Linux boot disk (boot/ root pair?) with enough USB capability to let me mount a USB thumb drive, one loaded with a Net based Fedora installation iso? Bit confused about how I might invoke the USB stick's Network based installation then, should I actually manage to get a boot a basic system up from floppies?
 
Please, just vague ideas are all that's really required. If there are any relevant links with which I could be very gratefully provisioned, then I'm sure to realize a solution, provided that one may be possible in this case.
 
T. :-)
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