Subj : And another thing
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : richardw
Date : Wed Apr 27 2005 10:46 am

  Re: And another thing
  By: Angus Mcleod to Deuce on Tue Apr 26 2005 09:31 pm

 >  >  > The Win98 boot CD .iso is only 2 meg.  It contains (apart from the boo
 >  >  > code and so forth) a couple of useful files: READNTFS.EXE, DELPART.EXE
 >  >  > a copy of FDISK.EXE v1.21 as well.  What if I deleted these from the I
 >  >  > 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 abo
 >  >  > 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 flo
 >  > 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.

Or, you could use the emulation mode type of boot disc, and create 1 CD 
that will boot fine.  I don't recall the procedure for this, but I have 
done it... I once built a digital picture frame from an old notebook which 
booted from CDROM and displayed images on the CDROM.  I do remember I had 
to find a win98 boot disc "image" to use as the bootable part of the CD.


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