How to make bootable DOS CD w/o a floppy drive?

conjur

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Jun 7, 2001
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I've been all over the various sites that discuss creating a CD for booting a version of DOS for, say, upgrading BIOSes and such but I just can't get the CD to boot.

Either I get a blinking cursor in the top left corner or it doesn't even try to boot from the CD.

I've pointed Nero to what I thought was the boot image from Bart's site and added the .ISO file from the 'clean' boot CD option but maybe I don't know what the 'advanced' settings should be in Nero (for emulation and load sectors). The resulting .ISO file is over 3,000KB so is that breaking the 2.88MB floppy emulation? Should I pick harddrive, no emulation? Seems I've tried them all.

Dammit! Why can't someone post a screenshot-by-screenshot process for those of us who seem to have problems following directions! ;)
 

conjur

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Jun 7, 2001
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Had already been there...

But..

I just got one to work! Finally!!

Found WinImage and found a Win98 boot disk image (not self-extracting EXE) from bootdisk.com and I think I'm set now. Just have to add the firmware upgrade files to the image and reburn (thanks for RW drives ;) )