Parted w/o boot disk

[Dave Waller]

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