I suppose you've got the Win9x boot disk (the one that you used to install
Win98 from the non-bootable Win98 CD !).
Put it in your floppy drive.
Under Linux, do the following :
mkdir -p /tmp/BOOTABLE_CD/boot
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/BOOTABLE_CD/boot/boot.img bs=2048
You've got the exact copy of your floppy in the file boot.img.
Now, copy your Ghost images or whatever you need to the directory
/tmp/BOOTABLE_CD/
Do a mkisofs with the right options
(I can't remember all what is needed, but if you want, I can give them to
you another day)
You've got one (or more ?) option to do a El-Torito CD ROM, that is a
bootable CDROM. All you've got to do is give to this option the boot.img
file.
mkisofs will create a ISO image of your future CDROM, with a bootable part
that will be boot.img.
You can then record your CD under linux with cdrecord or whatever or under
MS with Nero or whatever.
When you boot on the CDROM, it boots like on your Win9x boot floppy disk,
and when it's finished, you've got the DOS prompt with the A: drive (even if
it has booted boot.img from the CDROM, it considers that it is the A: drive
!!!) and you've got access to the full CDROM on your usual drive letter for
the CDROM : D: or E: or...).
Now, you've got access to C: drive, to your Ghost image and so on and you
can do your stuff.
Regards
Mathieu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: duncan hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 06 October 1999 05:11
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] Making dos bootable cds under linux
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can make a dos bootable cd under linux?
>
> My cd burner is scsi and the only scsi box I have is my linux
> workstation. I want to make a bootable recover CD for windows.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dunc
>
