Re: Parted w/o boot disk

[Glenn McGrath]

Dave Waller wrote:
> 
> I want to install linux on my VAIO notbook and it is w/o a floppy or
> cdrom.
> 
> What I need to do first is use parted to split the d: drive into a linux
> disk.  Which I know how to do.
> 
> I am having trouble now with the boot disk part.  What is type is the
> bootdisk, I have tried fat, vfat, minix, and ext2.  What I want to do is
> use loadlin from a command prompt to load the correct kernel and root
> image, which I want to get off the bootdisk.
> 
> Dave Waller
> 

I think the root image will have to be the initrd.
I think linux needs a patch to be able to load a root image from a
loopback device.

Glenn