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Boot CD

Uh...you use a boot CD instead of a Boot floppy. To boot from the CD first, change the boot order in your BIOS.

Oh and why? Because I don't have a floppy drive! 😛
 
Why boot to a cd?

For loading an OS or an installer to load an os to the disk.

It holds 650MB's (and more if you buy the right cd's) instead of 1.44MB's.

It's many, many times faster than a floppy is.

The old way to load an os is to boot a floppy that has drivers for running the cdrom drive and you install from the cd.

This way the boot files are on the cd, you boot from the cdrom drive and install from the cdrom drive.


How? you go into the bios and look for the boot order, set the cdrom to be the first boot device. Older systems dont have this option.
 
what does everyone use?? w/ nero, i can make a boot cd.. all it does is make the cd a virtual floppy.. so limited to the floppy disk the cd is being made from. i haven't looked to hard into it tho.. hasn't been a big concern of mine.. but curious
 


<< try bootdisk.com >>

Yep, bootdisk.com and use Nero, you should be all set. Also I highly recommend using a CD-RW till you know for sure you will be making the CD properly, so you don't waste CDs.

-RSI
 
i've used those before, is there one specific one that loads some kind of virtual driver so you can access the rest of the cd??
 
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