Substitute for CD-ROM Boot Install

[Fred Clearwater]

All:

I'm trying to install FC2 on an older system that does not support booting 
from the CD-ROM (there is a CD-ROM that works for reads but not booting).  In 
the past, I've been able to create a floppy boot disk to start the install 
process and then continue from the CD-ROM drive to finish the install of 
other Linux versions.  Apparently the floppy is not an option for FC2 
according to what I've read due to kernel size.  I read that there was a way 
to use a floppy to run grub to boot the system and then somehow access the 
CD-ROM to run the installation routine.  I've got the system to boot up from 
a floppy with grub and leave me at the grub prompt on the system.  I've tried 
copying the vmlinuz file from the CD-ROM to the hard drive and run that from 
the grub prompt but the end result is the system stops at a kernel panic.  
The install CD-ROM has a file called diskboot.img that the readme information 
indicates can be used to boot the system from a USB pen drive.  Can I use 
that somehow from the hard drive to do the boot and install process or is 
there some other way?

Thanks in advance,

Fred Clearwater