HOWTO install from HD using loadlin

[alekandr]

here is my logical assumption as i use loadlin for the exact same things
you do!

what i did in the first place was to extract all the files from the
iso, and copy them onto a 1GB fat32 partition, then loaded my current
distro and checked the dev/hda* number which was /dev/hda8

next i created a msdos/winxp boot disk and copyied loadlin onto this
disk.

next i move the vmlinuz file from the install dir  on the iso and put
it under c:  [c:\vmlinuz]

next i rebooted, and put my boot disk in, making sure that my bios was
set to boot floppy first. then when boot time came under a: i typed

> loadlin c:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 ro 

and voila it booted :D dont forget hte fat32 drive will be mounted as
ext2 and then released back to fat32 afterwards :D

PS. on a side not, the only way to boot a vmlinuz file from a windows
drive/partition is to make sure its NOT ntfs. as it never reads.

// i did all of this on the following

/dev/hda1 - windows xp [fat32]
/dev/hda5 - slackware 10.0.1 ~curent [Reiserfs]
/dev/hda6 - 2GB swap
/dev/hda8 - ubuntu iso storage [fat32]
/dev/hda9 - ubuntu installation space [ext2]


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alekandr