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

dowcom@xxxxxxxxx (bud) wrote in news:1345-42EDAF54-935@storefull-
3114.bay.webtv.net:

>
> Group: comp.os.msdos.misc Date: Mon, Aug 1, 2005, 12:19am (CDT+5) From:
> chucko@xxxxxxx (chuck)
>
> script:
>
>>the utility is probably irrelevant as the
>>crux was whether or not a pc will read
>>a cdrom before it reads config.sys and
>>whether will go any further than
>>msdos.sys/io.sys. depending on the
>>version of dos and the computers bios.
>
> Perhaps this has already been mentioned:
>
> To be bootable, the CD will have to be in 'El Torrito' format. The
> config.sys file and autoexec.bat _will_ have to have the correct DOS
> driver files for DOS to continue (with the CD) after the machine BIOS
> releases the machine to DOS.
>
> The DOS extender for CD access will be either MSCDEX.(sys?) or
> DRCDEX.(com?) One will probably be as good as the other, tho I prefer
> the DR version on principle. The hard thing might be finding the proper
> driver for the drive.

The problem lies (I believe still) in the fact that mscdex which creates the
drive letter must be loaded from the cdrom that the drive letter is to be
assigned to BEFORE the drive is created.
.

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