If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...
Learn what a USB to Serial adapter is used for, when you might need one, and whether installing a driver is required for it ...
I don't know of any installers (esp. RH) that explicitly allow you to do this at install time, but what about doing it manually? From a boot disk such as tomsrtbt, partition and format the laptop hard ...