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    Creating a bootable CD???

    Hiya guys,

    I have a handful of apps like DFT, Disk Commander and NTFS4DOS that need to be run from a boot disk. Now, I don't 'do' floppies so I have resorted to using CD's for these.

    Now each program is 2MB at most, which is quite a waste of CDs. Especially as I have to carry three CDs around when one has more than enough capacity.

    I have toyed with the idea about placing all the programs onto one CD, but I am having a problem with the boot loader as some of them use the NTOS kernel. How could i do this???

    I cant see a way of creating one without a third party program. Would something similar to lilo work?
    The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing England
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  • #2
    Create bootable disk the size to fit all those programs.-> burn teh cdr.

    Alternatively make autoexec to expand images of floppies in ramdrive.

    Then alternatively you can get premade images on line.

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    • #3
      You'll run into a problem if you want to have a lot of programs loaded into the glorious 640K of memory...just make sure you can load them in hi mem.

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      • #4
        Can all these programs run from a 98 system disk boot? If so use a dos multi-boot menu to run the software from the cd-rom if it won't all fit on the boot disk. You could get fancy and even transfer the stuff to a RAMdrive if you wanted and run it from there. I've got a cd-boot disk which sets up a 12MB RAMdrive and loads Powerquest Drive Image, Powerquest Partitionmagic, Ultra-X Quick-Tech Pro, and a few other DOS apps/commands. It can also run hard drive diags, even Ghost from batch file commands. Works really slick.
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        • #5
          Not all of these programs use DOS. That's my problem.
          The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing England

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          • #6
            Just a thought off the top of my head....

            use the boot image from a win98 floppy, write a small bat file to ask for a Y or N to load ntfs4dos for when you need it, and point to the bat in autoexec

            or

            use the image from an nt/2k/xp startup (or maybe just dos sys files, ntldr and ntdetect.com) and arc it to which OS's files/utils you want via a boot ini and some pointers to something like %cddriveletter%\dos or \nt

            no clue if either of those would work, but going on 30 hours without sleep it sounds like a good idea (umm maybe?)
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            • #7
              erm... disk commander wont work in DOS, it needs to be run in a NTFS shell of some kind.... I am not sure...

              I need to make something similar to a boot.ini on a multi OS rig.
              Can i make a boot.ini for a CD???
              The Welsh support two teams when it comes to rugby. Wales of course, and anyone else playing England

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              • #8
                I don't know about boot ini but I used to have 7-config 100+ lines autoxec.bat

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