Can't Install from DOS. Please help me.

[junglemike]

HI. My lapotop has no floppy, no cd-rom, no network, can't boot from usb.
So my only way is installing from dos using Loadlin.exe.
While in windows, i created
a) 4.5gb ext.2 partition for Slackware
b) 500mb swap linux partition
c) temporary 2gb fat32 partition - i extracted there contents of both 2 installation .iso files (10.2 version) - so that it would be accessible from dos and from setup.

Here's what i did:

1) I copied bzimage file to c:\ (c is fat32). I took bzimage file from BareAcpi.I directory on cd1

2) I copied initrd.img file to c:\ from \isolinux direcotry on cd1

3)Start Win98, At the very beginning press F8, and choose "command prompt only"

4) Started Loadlin, using this command:

loadlin.exe c:\bareacpi\bzimage initrd=c:\initrd.img root=/dev/ram rw load_ramdisk=1

Here is what i get:

.....
...
.. 
Uncompressing Linux...
invalid compressed format (err=1)
  --System halted

I took this parameters from some guide on loadlin.
I also tried some other parameters, but notheing works.
I'm newbie in linux.
PLEASE HELP ME.

[TrashOverride]

hmm i've recieved a similar err, but cant remember if it was like you problem... did y write the table when you changed the file systems/ fat and ext2/? is fat partition the bootable one?

or i think that it is trying to install linux on fat partition...
any other oppinion?