How to install Linux with no cd-rom driv and no floppy drive

calorique

1 Download "grub for dos".
2 Decompress the package， put "boot" directory and "grldr" file to c:\.
3 Open first Linux ISO image file with a tool, eg. winrar, extract "initrd.img"
  and "vmLinuz" to c:\boot.
4 Modify "c:\boot.ini", append a line "c:\grldr=Grub for dos".
5 Modify "c:\boot\grub\menu.lst", append a section like this:
        title Linux Installation
        kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz vga=788
        initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img
6 Prepare a partition formatted as fat32 files system, copy your linux ISO images
  to this partition.
7 Reboot system, choose "Grub for dos" while the boot menu appears.
8 Choose "Linux Installation" menu while the grub menu appears and start the installation.
9 When installtion guide ask for the media, choose "Hard Drive", if you had put the ISO
  images into the directory "D:\" in Windows system, select "hda5",and so on, if you had
  put they in a sub  directory, such as "d:\linuxiso", input the sub directory name
  "linuxiso"at the below input line.
10 If you wanna boot your system with "Grub for dos" instead of grub of lilo, you should
  skip the setp of os loader installing When the guide ask you. But, do remember the
  partition name of linux file system and make sure that you have already known the full
  path name of kernel files.
11 After finished the installation, reboot to Windows, edit "c:\boot\grub\menu.lst", append
  a section like:
        title Fedora Core 2, Linux Workstation,  SMP 2 CPU
        kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet vga=788
        initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358smp.img
12 Reboot to "Grub for dos", and choose "Fedora Core 2, Linux Workstation,  SMP 2 CPU".


All these operations complete in windows xp and windows 2003, if you only have a win2k, please
copy  "ntdetect.com" and "ntldr" from a xp or 2003 windows system.

sinboy2002

well done.
a perfect way for anyone who has no cdrom or his computer is not supprt boot from cdrom.
but i don't use this way to install linux with iso files.
because  my computer is support boot from cdrom .

Red Star over C

For me, I boot the computer with a DOS startup diskette. Then load the kernel to start an installation.

I think the file operation under windows prior to the installation of GUN/Linux OS is too complicated for me!

calorique

Sorry, you all misunderstood why the reason I post this. So I changed the title to make it more purposive.