Subj : And another thing
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Deuce
Date : Tue Apr 26 2005 12:32 pm

  Re: And another thing
  By: Angus Mcleod to Chronos on Fri Apr 22 2005 15:36:00

 >  >  > Later:  Interesting.  I found what looks like a Win98 boot CD image, w
 >  >  > is only 2,451,456 bytes.  I wonder what all else i can squeeze into th
 >  >  > .iso before burning to an 80mm disk?
 >  >
 >  > Hmmmm.... that might just work...
 > 
 > The Win98 boot CD .iso is only 2 meg.  It contains (apart from the boot
 > code and so forth) a couple of useful files: READNTFS.EXE, DELPART.EXE and
 > a copy of FDISK.EXE v1.21 as well.  What if I deleted these from the ISO
 > and replaced them with the entire contents of the un-bootable Win98SE
 > install disk?  But how do I write to an .iso file, extending it by about
 > 600 meg, without hosing it?

Ah... I see.

Win98 CDs boot in emulation mode, which means the boot image is used as a
floppy disk.  Which is where the 2.88MB limit comes from (the largest floppy
your BIOS supports)

NT CDs on the other hand, boot in no-emulation mode... which means the whole
thing can be accessed fom the boot section.

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