>>I was thinking about this, how do one create a bootable CD? That would be a
>>very cool thing. Just put my DOS CD in the CD and I would be up and running
>>on all PCs that have a CD disregarding the OS on it.
>I think you burn a partition with emulation info. onto the CD... A
CD-bootable
>BIOS needs to use the emulation info. to decide whether the partition should
>look like a floppy disk (up to 32Mb) or hard disk (up to the capacity of the
>CD) to the OS it boots by loading the boot sector from this partition.
>CeQuadrat tools for Windows (maybe there are some DOS equivalents) take a
>partition from your hard-drive and burn it into the CD.
Cool, I use CeQuadrat so perhaps I'll try it.
>However, IIRC, once the machine is booted from the bootable CD with DOS DOS
>cannot see any other partitions on the CD, and if you boot normally into
DOS or
>Win9x they can only see any non-bootable partitions on the CD.
Oh! Well, it's worth using a CD to try. When I can find the time to get
more info and test it I'll mail the results back.
//Bernie
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