Subj : And Another Thing
To   : Belly
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Sun May 01 2005 10:18 pm

  Re: And Another Thing
  By: Belly to Angus Mcleod on Sun May 01 2005 14:56:00

 >  >  > Even if not, depending on your drive and media, you should be able to 
 >  >  > as much as 50MB.
 >  >
 >  > I don't need to overburn.  I'm burning a 2,451,456 byte image to a CD.
 >  > There is BAGS of space free on the disk.
 > 
 > Now I'm confused. I thought you wanted a bootable Windows CD.
 > 
 > Weren't you working towards that a few messages ago?

You weren't listening, I expect.

I had a non-bootable Win98 install CD.  This is a PITA because of the fact 
that it can't boot.  (Duh!)

Yes, you can download an image for a bootable floppy to get to the point 
where you can run SETUP.EXE from the dos-prompt, but I have an allergy 
that prevents me from being in the same room as a floppy.

Yes, you can get a similar ISO image for a bootable CD instead of a 
bootable floppy, and I have done this, so I now have a bootable CD that 
leaves me at the DOS-prompt.

I now have a two-CD set, one to boot, and one to install Win98 from.  The 
boot CD is 2.4 meg long, and is burnt on a 700 meg CD, wasting 697.6 meg 
of space on the CD.  The second disk is the Win98 install disk which 
contains 662,147,783 bytes of data.  

In terms or space alone, the combined size of the boot-CD ISO and the 
Win98 install disk comes to 664,599,239 which will EASILY fit on a 700 meg 
CD without the need to overburn anything.  

SPACE on the disk is not the problem.  The tricky part comes with trying 
to combine the bootable ISO and the files from the install disk in order 
to get an ISO of a bootable, Win98 install disk.

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