Old laptop with No CDROM drive needs network update of redhat or fedora

Old laptop with No CDROM drive needs network update of redhat or
fedora.

This is a slick old Sony Vaio with no CDROM.

It's got and old redhat 5.0 on it.

I'm more of a debian person, and don't know rpm very well.

I want to grab XFree86 of f of a trusted website and update
other software/ add software from the internet.

Is there a way to do this?

I tried
rpm -ivh XFree86

but it said
error: open of XFree86 failed: No such file or directory

Would installing yum to do this be a better way?
I tried that but it said I needed fedora-release = 5

Thanks
J

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