Re: making a dos boot cd... how??

chuck wrote:
> schepers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Schepers) wrote in
> news:dagtss$q0c$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>> In article <Pine.NEB.4.62.0507061231320.27687@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> straydog <aes1492@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> This is likely to be the case if you
>>>> just have a small 1.44 MB floppy image to get the system started
>>>> and a bunch of other files on the disk. For creating bootable CDs
>>>> commands such as SYS don't come into it.
>>>
>>> But, you make it sound like all that is needed is to put the floppy
>>> image on the CD-ROM disk but if you dont need SYS.COM to do it,
>>> then how do you put the floppy image on the CD-ROM disk?
>>>
>>> I'm not trying to do this (as the OP is), but I'd like to learn
>>> something I know that I don't know.
>>
>> Here's the long and short of it...
>>
>> If you have a bootable floppy disk, with CD drivers/mscdex, that you
>> can use to boot up your computer and be able to recognize the CD
>> player and read a CD, then you can create a bootable CD. I have
>> multiple boot floppies that I maintain for different boot scenarios:
>>
>> a) one for multiple CD-ROM drivers (ATAPI, SCSI)
>> b) one for USB device access (with entries for different USB driver
>> methods)
>> c) one for custom environments
>> d) etc
>>
>> You will need a CD burner program (i.e. Nero, I use Roxio EZCD 6)
>> that supports the "bootable CD" option. Selecting that option and
>> the software will ask for a boot floppy to be used as the boot
>> image. Insert your CD-capable boot floppy when asked, it will be
>> read, and the burner software will set up the CD image so that when
>> burned it will boot like the floppy, and you will have access to the
>> CD.
>>
>> Once booted, you will have a read-only A drive (simulated) which is
>> the copy of your bootable floppy, your A drive will likely now be B,
>> and your CD-ROM will also have a drive letter.
>>
>> Anything else?
> Yeah, just one thing occurs to me: where are you going to get a
> cdwriting program for dos <=6.22...
er by using a search engine?

http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/


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