Bootable REWRITEABLE CD-RW bootdisk?

[CheetahMk2]

Has anyone out there seen or heard of a boot image you can place on a CD-RW that will let it be WRITEABLE like a floppy? The floppy was recently destroyed during shipping, and I need to back up my original video card BIOS from DOS [and I have no alternatives such as a tiny 'other' Fat32 hard drive] using the utility.

Can someone point me toward a writeable CD-RW boot image? If I had that, I could abandon the floppy altogether [except for flashing the CD-RW's firmware, of course ; )]

 

[CheetahMk2]

Bump

 

[CQuinn]

I don't think you can do it that way.

What you might be able to do as an alternative is set up a (Win98SE or ME) DOS boot from the CD,
with a ramdrive to copy utilities into. Once the boot is complete, you might be able to
pop the boot CD out of the drive, put in a blank CD, and use a tool like DOSCDRoast to burn the files to.

I don't know of any DOS based packet writing tools (to make the CD act like a floppy disk).

But you should be able to save the video card BIOS to the ramdrive and burn it to CD from there.

 

[CheetahMk2]

Well... I did find something. It was FloppyCD by some now-defunct company.. I wish that I could find it. It is exactly what I was looking for, a packetwriting solution for DOS that was level 1... But since they are long dead [and so are any sites] there is no chance of finding the software!! Argh.... it seems new progress does erode past progress...