its doubtful, but can ur m/c do a network boot, or even a usb boot?
else connect ur hard disk somewhere else, load and reconnect to old pc (of course make sure that its on the same ide-bus && use the correct kernel i.e. not a 686 kernel or one thats not for your old pc)
1.Can I make this old PC a linux only box (dual/triple boot Linux only) and connect to my dual boot new PC. this means that my primary partition should be linux native.
c'ya Erle