Making a boot cd?

[TheGrandHooHa]

Is there anyway to make a boot CD? Meaning, instead of using a floppy to make a boot disk, could you burn the required boot files onto a CD and boot from that? The floppy cable that came with my 8k7a was bad, and I haven't gotten around to getting a replacement, but I really need to flash my bios (which requires booting to DOS, which needs a bootdisk to do from Win2k).

Anyone?

 

[prolific]

Hmm. I dont think there is. Ive never seen or heard of someone using a CDR to boot into DOS. The only reason Floppy Disks are in computers these day is for diagnosing problems. ETC.

 

[Shu8]

are you sure the floppy cable was bad...or did you have the cable plug upside down? i've done that a couple of times but anyway...

the only suggestion i could give you is to install win2k first then upgrade the bios. win2k is bootable, just make sure the cdrom is a boot device in bios.

 

[TheGrandHooHa]

So I gotta rip this thing open and try to get my floppy goin'.

In addition to my floppy cable being bad, the screws that came with my case for mounting floppy drives do not fit into this particular drive.

Shu8: I don't know if I understand you. I need to get to MS-DOS mode. How would I go about doing this without making a boot floppy?

Blah...

 

[virulent]

i actually use a win98 boot disk on my win2k rig to get the a:/ prompt. then i flash away. ive done it several times. problem is if u dont have a 98 boot disk lying around or a comp w/ 98 on it to make one.

 

[Siddhartha]

I have a laptop that came with a DVD drive but no floppy drive.
I used Easy CD Creator to generate a boot CD.
Easy CD requires that you have a boot floppy and have it in your A-drive and it does the rest.
I burned a copy of my Windows 98 SE installation CD on the boot CD. It works
very well and allow me to get my system running after I formated the hard drive.

 

[Guytalbot]

Yes there is a way to make bootable CD's (heck you can even fully boot windows95 from a cd but its a pain in the rear to do) I have a cd at work that has boot disks for about 7 different OS's on them, check out this page.

Bootable CD rom

 

[ROJAS]

Check out this site:

http://www.bootdisk.com