has anyone made a bootable cd?

[RSI]

who here has made a bootable cd? Can you do it simply with nero and a boot disk?

lets say i have a boot disk ok. i have it in A:. I go to nero, new boot thing.. select A: for image source. create a cd , load it up with stuff... will that be bootable, will that boot like the disk ?

-RSI

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

i dont quite get it either, so a bump for you, even though you are at the top. well, maybe people will say 'hey, BingBongWongFooey replied, it must be a cool thread!'

maybe not

 

[Aenygma]

Hey!, BingBongWongFooey replied, this must be a cool thread

 

[whooosh]

works for me

 

[RSI]

I'm figuring it out... i'll let u know how it goes!

-RSI

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

told ya

someone tell this man how to make a bootable CD!!!!!

i am also interested, that is, in making a multi-boot CD. have a win98 startup disk, ghost disk, linux startup disk, and other ones too, all in one !!!!

that would be bad but i dont know how you would do it.

this thread is twice as cool now

 

[RSI]

1.) Ready a floppy disk - make sure everything you would put on a good floppy boot disk is on there
2.) Fire up Nero
3.) Select the option for boot
4.) Click new
5.) Drag all your files you'd like to your CD
6.) Click burn


Try it..

-RSI (haven't done it yet)

 

[Electrode]

I've never done it before, but from what I've seen, I think this would work:

1. Make a boot floppy, and cram whatever you can onto it. Make sure to include a DOS CD-ROM driver, or you're fvcked.
2. Open up Nero and make bootable CD. Put your disk in the A: drive and tell nero to use it. The default settings should be OK.
3. Put any other stuff (ghost, partition magic, linux?) you'd want access to in a pinch on the rest of the CD.
4. If you can boot from your CD-RW or a multiread CD-ROM, use a CD-RW disk, so you don't waste any CD-R disks if it doesn't work right.

I don't have access to Nero at the moment so I couldn't be more specific.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

answered your own question, heh

nice, i oughtta do it here someday

 

[RSI]

<< I've never done it before, but from what I've seen, I think this would work:

1. Make a boot floppy, and cram whatever you can onto it. Make sure to include a DOS CD-ROM driver, or you're fvcked.
2. Open up Nero and make bootable CD. Put your disk in the A: drive and tell nero to use it. The default settings should be OK.
3. Put any other stuff (ghost, partition magic, linux?) you'd want access to in a pinch on the rest of the CD.
4. If you can boot from your CD-RW or a multiread CD-ROM, use a CD-RW disk, so you don't waste any CD-R disks if it doesn't work right.

I don't have access to Nero at the moment so I couldn't be more specific. >>

You said what I wanted to say, but better. That's exactly what I'm doing now. Bootdisk.com has great sources for boot disks. I have a basic boot disk, bare, for BIOS flashes if I ever CAN do that - and I have the Win98 boot disk maker which makes a great Win98 boot disk that works 100% for me, cdrom support and everything, very nice. So I stuck one of them 98 boot disks in, and did the Nero drill. Burning now, only have CDRs tho... already burnt one cd, burning the EXACT same cd but with BOOT this time... :\ oh well, whatever.

I'll keep y'all posted n'less mah tbird implodes.

-RSI

 

[RSI]

Testing! brb.

-RSI

 

[RSI]

Argh.

I get the startup menu.

1) Boot with CD support
2) Boot without CD support
3) whatever, help or something...

After I select an option, it reboots the computer.

The readme I was reading about creating bootable CDs earlier, said to make sure nothing was trying to write to the CD or it would crash. And to make sure that nothing was pointing to drives in particular. How can I make a boot CD like that? how can you have a floppy that doesn't point to A: for path and D: or whatever for cdroms and whatever location for whatever? ahhhhhh!

-RSI

 

[tgillitzr]

you odn't have to drag the files on there i don't think

should be able to just select boot, it will then create a boot image of sorts and use that to boot off of

then you can copy any data you want on the the cd, and it will burn it like a regular cd as well...

 

[RSI]

I don't get it. When it's booting from the CD, does it fool the computer into thinking it's a floppy, or what? If so, then how would installing a cdrom driver work ? the cdrom would be the floppy AND the cdrom? I don't get it..

-RSI

 

[RSI]

Like I said I have no CDRWs at the moment. I opened a box of 10 CDRs... I made a Utility disk, ok that's fine. Then I tried making the same thing bootable, and it didn't work. Tried again differently, didn't work (second cd). Trying something for the LAST time, third CD. If this doesn't work, I don't know...

-RSI

 

[jaeger66]

When booting from a CD the boot image files form the virtual A: drive. A CDROM driver is installed in case you want to read any files on the CDROM that aren't in the image(a boot image can only be 2.88MB), or another disc.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< When booting from a CD the boot image files form the virtual A: drive. A CDROM driver is installed in case you want to read any files on the CDROM that aren't in the image(a boot image can only be 2.88MB), or another disc. >>


wow in that short post you actually explained that really well. i always knew that it had to emulate a floppy in one way or another, for what ever reason i did not know (when booting from cd, it would say "boot from 2.88MB floppy" or something like that)

thanks

great thread

 

[RSI]

<<

<< When booting from a CD the boot image files form the virtual A: drive. A CDROM driver is installed in case you want to read any files on the CDROM that aren't in the image(a boot image can only be 2.88MB), or another disc. >>


wow in that short post you actually explained that really well. i always knew that it had to emulate a floppy in one way or another, for what ever reason i did not know (when booting from cd, it would say "boot from 2.88MB floppy" or something like that)

thanks

great thread >>

great thread thanks to me

-RSI

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

<< Hey!, BingBongWongFooey replied, this must be a cool thread >>


i think not. thanks to ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jaeger66]

Here's a link with how-to's and nice boot images.

http://www.drd.dyndns.org/index2.html

 

[RSI]

<< Here's a link with how-to's and nice boot images.

http://www.drd.dyndns.org/index2.html >>

Thanks.

Made my 3rd crap cd!

This one was close tho. I got the startup menu. I could load the cd drivers, but it'd just halt after that... whether i choose cdrom drivers or not i couldn't get to a prompt.

-RSI

 

[RSI]

jaeger66 Thank you very much for the link, it's the best one I've seen so far!!

I'm writing my 5th CD now. Hopefully this one will work. I think it will, though, I followed their instructions!

-RSI (will follow instructions from now on instead of wasting CDs!)

 

[RSI]

:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q:Q
it works!

-RSI

PS: Thanks a lot.