Albert, Day,
Yes. An examination of, for example, the Win98 CD, reveals that
it first boots DOS from a (virtual) floppy image which becomes A:,
sets up a RAM disk which I believe is B:, and loads one of the (many)
provided CD drivers, and finally executes the setup stuff from the
CD ROM which is the C: drive for this exercise.
I discovered this by booting from a Win98 CD and pressing F8
during the startup. Stepping through the boot process reveals
the layout.
Some CD ROM burning software makes this process easier than
others. I don't have any particular recommendation there.
~~ Garry
~~ kidrhino (at) wizard (dot) com
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> From: "Anthony J. Albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: University of Maine at PI
> Subject: Re: [SURVPC] Anyone seen drivers to burn a bootable CD from dos?
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On 17 May 2004 at 12:16, Day Brown wrote:
> >Will the standard atapi cd driver burn bootable DOS cd?
>
> Yes. A "bootable" CD is only a regular CD (or CD-R) that has been
> prepared with an image of a floppy disk on it, (often DOS) which can be
> automatically loaded & run.
>
> Creating a bootable CD is a function of the software being used to
> create the CD, though, so your software will need to support it.
> There's a number of resources out there for doing this; some WWW
> searching will turn up instructions.
>
> Hope this helps
> Anthony Albert
>
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