Need to make a boot disk and don't have a floppy but do have a cd drive and
cd burner. thanks.

Easy Media Creator or Nero - Buring Rom can do that.

An example of creating bootable CD in nero 6.
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=297



"jet one" <jetconsulting@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:AYmdnUAZvOjv7vzcRVn-pA@comcast.com...
> Need to make a boot disk and don't have a floppy but do have a cd drive
and
> cd burner. thanks.
>
>

Easy Media Creator or Nero - Buring Rom can do that.

An example of creating bootable CD in nero 6.
http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=297



"jet one" <jetconsulting@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:AYmdnUAZvOjv7vzcRVn-pA@comcast.com...
> Need to make a boot disk and don't have a floppy but do have a cd drive
and
> cd burner. thanks.
>
>

jet one wrote:

> Need to make a boot disk and don't have a floppy but do have a cd drive and
> cd burner. thanks.
>
>
>

Well, if you do not have a floppy drive, how in the heck do you
expect to boot from a floppy????
The method for making a Win9x boot disk requires a floppy.

jet one wrote:

> Need to make a boot disk and don't have a floppy but do have a cd drive and
> cd burner. thanks.
>
>
>

Well, if you do not have a floppy drive, how in the heck do you
expect to boot from a floppy????
The method for making a Win9x boot disk requires a floppy.

You can make a boot disk from a CD. Just make sure your setting in the BIOS
are set to Floppy, CD, then Hard-drive.

"Robert Baer" <robertbaer@access4less.net> wrote in message
news:41625AE4.9080701@access4less.net...
> jet one wrote:
>
>> Need to make a boot disk and don't have a floppy but do have a cd drive
>> and
>> cd burner. thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Well, if you do not have a floppy drive, how in the heck do you expect
> to boot from a floppy????
> The method for making a Win9x boot disk requires a floppy.
>
>

You can make a boot disk from a CD. Just make sure your setting in the BIOS
are set to Floppy, CD, then Hard-drive.

"Robert Baer" <robertbaer@access4less.net> wrote in message
news:41625AE4.9080701@access4less.net...
> jet one wrote:
>
>> Need to make a boot disk and don't have a floppy but do have a cd drive
>> and
>> cd burner. thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Well, if you do not have a floppy drive, how in the heck do you expect
> to boot from a floppy????
> The method for making a Win9x boot disk requires a floppy.
>
>

"Teresa Lindsoe" <Tlindsoe@frontiernet.net> wrote in message news:<JPU8d.6194$7G2.2085@news01.roc.ny>...
> You can make a boot disk from a CD. Just make sure your setting in the BIOS
> are set to Floppy, CD, then Hard-drive.

that would be a boot disC ;)

seriously though, it's bad to continue the use of ambiguous
terminology. A boot cd is a boot cd and should not be called a boot
disc, and definitely not a boot disk. A boot disk is a boot floppy.
Boot disc would be 'better', but nobody says boot disc because disc
tends to be optical media, and if one means Boot CD they say Boot CD,
which also has the advantage that it can be interpreted both correctly
and clearly both in written or vocal form - unlike the words
disk/disc which fail on both counts - twice on each.

"Teresa Lindsoe" <Tlindsoe@frontiernet.net> wrote in message news:<JPU8d.6194$7G2.2085@news01.roc.ny>...
> You can make a boot disk from a CD. Just make sure your setting in the BIOS
> are set to Floppy, CD, then Hard-drive.

that would be a boot disC ;)

seriously though, it's bad to continue the use of ambiguous
terminology. A boot cd is a boot cd and should not be called a boot
disc, and definitely not a boot disk. A boot disk is a boot floppy.
Boot disc would be 'better', but nobody says boot disc because disc
tends to be optical media, and if one means Boot CD they say Boot CD,
which also has the advantage that it can be interpreted both correctly
and clearly both in written or vocal form - unlike the words
disk/disc which fail on both counts - twice on each.

bootdisk.com is a good place to download free windows 98 startup disks.
Red

bootdisk.com is a good place to download free windows 98 startup disks.
Red

"computerdoctor1960" <computerdoctor1960@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<1dmdnX7njrlCey3cRVn-vw@comcast.com>...
> bootdisk.com is a good place to download free windows 98 startup disks.
> Red

it only has EXEs to put on floppies, and he has no floppy drive
anyway, and he wants to make a cd. He'd need to convert the EXEs to
ISOs. If he's still reading this thread, I can email him the boot
sector from a floppy(I got it using roadkil's sector editor). It is
possible to instruct nero to make a cd, and refer it to a file
containing the boot record to put on it. But there's the whole issue
of getting nero to do the el torito thing, so you have to get the
settings right. I don't know if the boot sector file should be
512bytes or some kind of el torito 2048 byte simulation. I'd have to
play around. The easiest way to do it in nero requires a floppy drive.
You do file..new select boot cd, then there's an option to put a
floppy disk in there and it reads it, gets the boot sector off it and
writes a cd. Nero Express does it too.

Maybe the best thing for him to do is to find a friend with a floppy
drive and a cd burner and do it there with nero.

"computerdoctor1960" <computerdoctor1960@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<1dmdnX7njrlCey3cRVn-vw@comcast.com>...
> bootdisk.com is a good place to download free windows 98 startup disks.
> Red

it only has EXEs to put on floppies, and he has no floppy drive
anyway, and he wants to make a cd. He'd need to convert the EXEs to
ISOs. If he's still reading this thread, I can email him the boot
sector from a floppy(I got it using roadkil's sector editor). It is
possible to instruct nero to make a cd, and refer it to a file
containing the boot record to put on it. But there's the whole issue
of getting nero to do the el torito thing, so you have to get the
settings right. I don't know if the boot sector file should be
512bytes or some kind of el torito 2048 byte simulation. I'd have to
play around. The easiest way to do it in nero requires a floppy drive.
You do file..new select boot cd, then there's an option to put a
floppy disk in there and it reads it, gets the boot sector off it and
writes a cd. Nero Express does it too.

Maybe the best thing for him to do is to find a friend with a floppy
drive and a cd burner and do it there with nero.

Check out NLite, it's a great freeware program for making bootable CDs.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4324.html


"jet one" <jetconsulting@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:AYmdnUAZvOjv7vzcRVn-pA@comcast.com...
> Need to make a boot disk and don't have a floppy but do have a cd drive
> and
> cd burner. thanks.
>
>

Check out NLite, it's a great freeware program for making bootable CDs.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4324.html


"jet one" <jetconsulting@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:AYmdnUAZvOjv7vzcRVn-pA@comcast.com...
> Need to make a boot disk and don't have a floppy but do have a cd drive
> and
> cd burner. thanks.
>
>