Subj : And another thing
To   : Deuce
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Tue Apr 26 2005 09:31 pm

  Re: And another thing
  By: Deuce to Angus Mcleod on Tue Apr 26 2005 12:32:00

 >  > 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 an
 >  > 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)

<sigh>

Yes, but the upshot is I have to walk around with *TWO* CDs, one of which 
is bootable and otherwise blank, and the other which contains the 
installation files but isn't bootable.


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