Booting into a DOS program from CD

[ixelion]

I have a hard drive checker program that was intended to run from USB boot disk. What I would like to do is create a bootable CD that will immediately run the program without any additional commands/input. it is simple a single exe file that runs under win98 dos.

I was able to create an ISO file that contained a floppy image and the program files, but whenever I launch the program I get an "unhandled exception" fault. In fact I tried other diag tools and they also fail to launch.

I suspect the program is trying to write to disk, or maybe it just doesn't like running off of a CD, maybe this has something to do with ramdrive, or perhaps I am using incompatible boot file? I was using windows 98 DOS and win98 boot file with ramdrive.

Any suggestion appreciated.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Probably it's trying to write. If you done everything right, it should have worked, though. I've done it before. Use a floppy disk or USB drive instead.

Did you use WinImage?

 

[ixelion]

Probably it's trying to write. If you done everything right, it should have worked, though. I've done it before. Use a floppy disk or USB drive instead.

Did you use WinImage?

would you care to share your methods?

 

[Magic Carpet]

Simple is best.

device=cd1.sys /d:mscd001
devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /e 32767

mscdex /d:mscd001 /l:x
copy x:\write.exe c:

EDIT: Just made a test cd yesterday, everything worked as it should. Checked on my VAIO laptop.

 

[ixelion]

thanks Magic Carpet, works perfectly!