Create a ramdisk and mount it to a running system without touching a hardisk?

Is it possible to create a ramdisk and mount it to a running system without 
touching a hardisk?

This is my problem.

I have a old P120 system whiche I want to install a minimalistic slackware 9.0 
on and run it as a fileserver. The big problem is that this particular 
machine does not suport booting from the cdrom.

So I thought, boot on a exiting tomsrtbt floppy I have. Create a bootfloopy 
from the distribution and boot on that. Unfortunately there was a catch. 
tomsrtbt does not support all the commands neaded by the slackware makedisk 
script.

This could have been solved if I knew how to use tomsrtbt to boot the cdrom. 
Is this posible at all?

Next I thougth I could boot the slackware cd on a diskless machine, I normaly 
run knoppix from, and make a floppy from the install enviroment. No such 
luck. The slackware installer does not create a bigenough ramdisk for me to 
make the floppies and the machine does not have free partitions I can play 
with. (and existing partitions are NTFS, so no writing, right?)

I have enough memory (256MB), but how do I increase the ramdisk size or create 
a new one entierly in memory?

Best regards
Staale Flock
Norway
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