Subj : Re: And another thing
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Sniper
Date : Wed Apr 27 2005 07:58 pm

-=> Angus Mcleod wrote to Daemon <=-

 AM>   Re: And another thing
 AM>   By: Daemon to Angus Mcleod on Wed Apr 27 2005 14:02:00

 >  > Yes, but you have to get the machine up to where it can read a CD first.
 >  > Which means a bootable floppy or CD.  So it's a pity the CD isn't bootabl
 >  > to start with, right?
 >
 >   This is exactly why I went to the trouble to make a bootable floppy (and
 > several copies) that tries a series of CDROM drivers before dropping to the
 > prompt, and made sure fdisk, scandisk, edit, format, sys, and mscdex are on
 > there.

 AM> Trouble is, my religeon prevents me from owning a floppy-disk, or
 AM> touching or using one belonging to anyone else.  WHich is why I use a
 AM> boot CD, of 700 megabytes capacity, with 698 megabytes free.  Wot a
 AM> shame those empty/wasted 698 megabytes didn't contain the files needed
 AM> to do the install, instead of them being on another CD!

And having that bootable CD, specifically if you have a standard CD-Rom
drive, you could put that CD in that drive, and put a empty CD-R in your
burning... then when building the CD, you can tell it to copy the boot
sector from the bootable CD then pull the files from the "Second"
non-bootable win98 cd... and create....  Wait for it...

A bootable CD with the complete install/setup on it.

:)



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