failing to get small ide hdd setup to install from...

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I am trying to use an eide 10GB hdd in place of a DVD to install fc6.  I
have copied the DVD iso and mounted it, then used dd to write the
bootdisk.img to the primary bootable partition which is /dev/hdc1 on
this interface.

My goal is to setup the 10GB drive as an install media, and install FC6
to the primary 60GB hdd on /dev/hda interface.  I have used fdisk to
partition the 10GB drive with a 250MB primary partition #1, also I have
a second /dev/hdc2 set to swap of 250MB, and an extended #3, then
a /dev/hdc5 with 8GB or so which I have copied the iso's, and have
successfully mounted the DVD version with mount -0 loop -t iso9660 to a
directory on the same partition.  Next, I used dd to copy the
bootdisk.img to /dev/hdc1 which has been formated with ext3 and vfat
with the same failure.  

When I try to boot the /dev/hdc disk the screen goes blank, then reboots
the machine without bringing it down, more like a power fail.  There is
no BIOS text written to the screen stating there is no bootable media as
I would expect, so I think it tries to boot, then dies before anything
can be written to the screen.

Can anyone point me to a howto or other doc that discusses this somewhat
unusual install method?

Thanks