Bootable CD's

[LonnieL]

What files have to be on a CD in order to boot from it, and how can they be put there?

e.g. "SYS [drive:]" or "FORMAT /S [drive:] will make a floppy or a primary partition bootable.

I am using EZCDPRO. I have tried adding IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, and COMMAND.COM to a CD, but no luck.

(Of course you have to tell the computer to boot from CDROM, too.)

Any ideas??

Lonnie

[Marty]

I made one with Adaptec easy cd creater. It had a dropdown menu that said make bootable cd. Then asked me to insert a boot disk in the floppy.
Just adding those files to a cd burn would not make it bootable, it wouldn,t build the boot track record.

[This message has been edited by Marty (edited 07-22-2000).]

[SDT]

Follow the instructions on this url.
http://ask.adaptec.com/cgi-bin/tic/solution?11=000114-0003&130=947893686&14=&2715=&15=&2716=&57=search&58=&25=7&3=bootable%20cd

[codybear]

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~rossstew/drs/sec2.html

[BBA]

Well...if you follow those directions, it will boot but not do much more. What is needed is ramdrive. Setting up the ramdrive is the tricky part, as just having one will not work either.

The easiest way to do it is to make a Win9x startup floppy by using the tool in control panel/add-remove programs/startup disk. After you make one, open Autoexec.BAT and modify the menu item lines so the diagnostic tools and windows setup type stuff do not load. Keep the files and buffers and %xx lines.

You can use that disc for the image, and add whatever data to the cd you want and all will work well.