What makes the Win98 CD bootable?

[Butler]

Not much in the way of details here...it's a simple enough question I guess. Objective - I'd like to make a CD that's bootable like the Win98 CD is; put it in the drive, flip the switch and it boots to DOS or whatever. Then all my diagnostics and tools are availible to a computer, even if it has no resident OS. Is it possible?

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[Bleep]

If you are using nero just click the little box that asks if you want the cd bootable.

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[Mavrick007]

If you made your cd as if it was a dos boot disk, and enabled the boot from cd in the bios, then it should work as if it was a diskette boot disk.

 

[corkyg]

The answer is "yes." Either Nero or ECDC will make bootable CDs. What makes them bootable are the .BIN files placed in the right part of the CD. I have several bootable CDs I use regularly. DriveCopy 4 being the most used.

The critical files are BOOTCAT.BIN and BOOTIMG.BIN. These are created and placed first ahead of anything else. Then the rest depends on what purpose it will serve.

 

[AnMig]

Using NERO
step one: create a windows 98 boot disk floppy (or your favorite bootdisk)

step 2: choose option "bootable" in NERO options when it ask you what kind of cdr you are making. make sure the bootable floppy you created is in drive A

step 3: write cd

what this does is it copies the bootable floppy to the cdr and you will have a bootable cd.

good luck

I am pretty sure Easy cd creator has a similar option for creating a bootable cd