Bootable CD doesn't work right

[Kelemvor]

Howdy,

I'm tryign to make a bootable CD that simply runs Ghost and puts an image (from the CD) onto a hard drive. I'm using Nero 6 and have a boot floppy disk that works fine.

When I do the Boot CD option in Nero and tell it to use the Disk as the template for booting, it works fine. Then I drag n Drop the Ghost.exe file and the GHO file onto the CD and then burn the whole thing.

CD Boots into DOS but when I do a DIR it only shows the files that were copied off the CD. And when I put the CD in my PC it only shows the files I dragged over manually. The CD boots and has an autoexec.bat file that just runs Ghost.exe but it says it can't see the ghost.exe file.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong and why the two sets of files can't seem to see each other.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Kelemvor]

Also looks like I could take all the files from the Boot Disk, add the files I want to burn, and put them all in an IMA file to use but I can't seem to find how to make an IMA file. heh.

 

[Cheetah8799]

here's why. The cd is booting from the boot image, and I assume you ahve a DOS boot disk you are using for this. You need to setup your DOS boot disk to load the DOS cdrom drivers for your drive. Then you can see the cd as like d: or something, depending on your system.

edit: The dos ghost.exe file should fit on your floppy boot disk. Just copy it there before making the bootable CD, then the ghost.exe file will be on the a: drive, which is really the bootable portion of the cd.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: Cheetah8799
here's why. The cd is booting from the boot image, and I assume you ahve a DOS boot disk you are using for this. You need to setup your DOS boot disk to load the DOS cdrom drivers for your drive. Then you can see the cd as like d: or something, depending on your system.

edit: The dos ghost.exe file should fit on your floppy boot disk. Just copy it there before making the bootable CD, then the ghost.exe file will be on the a: drive, which is really the bootable portion of the cd.

If I put the ghost.exe file on the disk and the GHO file on the rest of the CD, will Ghost be able to see the GHO file? I was going to try it that way but hadn't gotten to that point yet.

 

[Kelemvor]

OK, I think I got it to work. I used a 98 boot disk as the floppy and set it to always "Boot With CD Support" THen I just edited the autoexec file to switch to the CD drive to run the files. Seems like it's working.