Thanks for your answer and thanks for answering my question.
This is exactly what I needed rather than a lecture about copyright laws and if
Bill makes bootable cd's.
Dunc
"Bois, Mathieu" wrote:
> I suppose you've got the Win9x boot disk (the one that you used to install
> Win98 from the non-bootable Win98 CD !).
>
> Put it in your floppy drive.
> Under Linux, do the following :
>
> mkdir -p /tmp/BOOTABLE_CD/boot
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/BOOTABLE_CD/boot/boot.img bs=2048
>
> You've got the exact copy of your floppy in the file boot.img.
>
> Now, copy your Ghost images or whatever you need to the directory
> /tmp/BOOTABLE_CD/
>
> Do a mkisofs with the right options
> (I can't remember all what is needed, but if you want, I can give them to
> you another day)
> You've got one (or more ?) option to do a El-Torito CD ROM, that is a
> bootable CDROM. All you've got to do is give to this option the boot.img
> file.
> mkisofs will create a ISO image of your future CDROM, with a bootable part
> that will be boot.img.
>
> You can then record your CD under linux with cdrecord or whatever or under
> MS with Nero or whatever.
>
> When you boot on the CDROM, it boots like on your Win9x boot floppy disk,
> and when it's finished, you've got the DOS prompt with the A: drive (even if
> it has booted boot.img from the CDROM, it considers that it is the A: drive
> !!!) and you've got access to the full CDROM on your usual drive letter for
> the CDROM : D: or E: or...).
> Now, you've got access to C: drive, to your Ghost image and so on and you
> can do your stuff.
>
> Regards
>
> Mathieu
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: duncan hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 06 October 1999 05:11
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [expert] Making dos bootable cds under linux
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me how I can make a dos bootable cd under linux?
> >
> > My cd burner is scsi and the only scsi box I have is my linux
> > workstation. I want to make a bootable recover CD for windows.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dunc
> >
