HOWTO install From FAT drives?

From: Mac (macshy_at_tom.com)
Date: 05/31/04

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    Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 13:12:52 +0800
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    Dear Friends,
      I downloaded the FC2 (four iso files,MD5-checked) under windows environment, and want to install it without burning CDs. I tried to use loadlin.exe(for DOS) and grub to load the vmlinuz and initrd.img file(in the directory of /images/pxeboot),but failed.Here are the command line I tried:
         loadlin vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216
         (failed,unrecognized format)

         grub>root (hd0,8)
         grub>kernel /fedora/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz initrd=/fedora/images/pxeboot/initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216
         grub>boot
         (failed,Unable to mount root filesystem)
         

      The FC2 Distribution don't supply a comfortable way for installing without CDs, since we cannot write the diskboot.img to a floppy. I think the only method is to use the vmlinuz and initrd.img, but I don't know how to.
      Could anybody help me? And I want more info(usage,parameters,etc) on the two files, vmlinuz and initrd.img of all linux distribitions.
      Thanks a lot.
                    Mac, Harbin China
    　　　　　　　　macshy@tom.com
    　　　　　　　　　　2004-05-31 

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