Bootable CD

[Joyce.Meyer]

How do I make a bootable CD?

[Tien]

i read this note and i made some bootable cd with no problem. hope this help.

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CREATING A BOOTABLE CD-ROM
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WARNING: Creating a Bootable CD-ROM is intended for the advanced user.
It requires an understanding of how to create bootable floppy disks and
how to create and edit DOS CONFIG.SYS and/or AUTOEXEC.BAT files.

Adaptec Easy CD Creator allows you to create CDs that you can boot from.
However, not all systems support booting from CD-ROMs. Here is what you
will need:

1.) If your computer has a built-in CD-ROM drive, you should check your
system BIOS settings and see if you can enable Bootable CD-ROM
support. Most Pentium class systems (or higher) support this
feature.

2.) If your CD-ROM drive is connected to a SCSI host adapter, and if
the SCSI host adapter has a BIOS on-board, you should check your
host adapter documentation and see if it supports booting from a
CD-ROM.

Adaptec Easy CD Creator creates a bootable CD-ROM by copying the contents
of a bootable floppy disk to your CD. When you boot to the CD-ROM, the
exact contents of your floppy disk are now seen on your CD-ROM drive.
Under most configurations, the CD-ROM drive is accessible as drive A: while
your floppy drive automatically moves from drive A: to B:.

When you boot to your CD-ROM, your drive A: will only show you the contents
that were on your floppy disk. You will not see any of the files that were
added to your CD layout from within Easy CD Creator. In order to see the
CD-ROM content, you need to properly create the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
that are on the root directory of your bootable floppy disk / CD-ROM.

The creation of the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT is dependent on the system
you are planning to boot from. The CONFIG.SYS file will typically contain
the instructions to load your DOS CD-ROM driver while the AUTOEXEC.BAT file
will contain the instructions to load Microsoft's DOS CD-ROM Extensions
(i.e. MSCDEX.EXE).

Please consult your system's documentation for the proper way to load your
DOS CD-ROM driver and MSCDEX.EXE. You should test this configuration with
your bootable floppy disk before you create a bootable CD-ROM. If your
target system boots properly with the floppy disk, and assigns a drive
letter for the CD-ROM drive on that system, you're ready to create a
bootable CD-ROM.

TIP: When you add the lines to the CONFIG.SYS and/or AUTOEXEC.BAT, do not
use fixed paths. For example:

Recommended Entry: device=aspicd.sys /d:aspicd0

Not Recommended: device=a:\aspicd.sys /d:aspicd0

At this point, you have learned how to prepare a floppy disk with the
necessary files to create a bootable CD-ROM. You have also learned which
systems support bootable CD-ROMs. Now let's look at how Easy CD Creator
creates a bootable CD-ROM.

Launch Easy CD Creator and click Cancel if the Wizard option appears.
Follow these simple steps:

1.) Click on the "File" menu option
2.) Click on the "CD Layout Properties" menu option
3.) When the "CD Layout Properties" window appears, click on the "Data
Settings" tab
4.) If the File System is not set to "ISO9600", change it to "ISO9660"
5.) Click on the "Bootable" check box to enable bootable CD-ROM support
6.) Click on the "OK" button at the bottom of the "CD Layout Properties"
window.

After you follow these steps, Easy CD Creator will ask you to insert your
bootable floppy disk into your floppy drive. The contents of the floppy
will then be copied to your system and stored in your CD Layout.

Now simply use Easy CD Creator as you normally do. Drag and Drop files
and folders into your Layout. When you have completed creating your
layout, choose the "Create CD" option to create your bootable CD-ROM.

When the CD has been created, take it to the system you wish to boot from.
Make sure it has bootable CD-ROM support enabled, insert the bootable CD in
your CD-ROM drive, and reboot the system. If everything worked well, you
will see the contents of your bootable floppy disk as drive A: and the
contents of your CD Layout as Drive X: (where X: is determined by how you
configure MSCDEX.EXE in your AUTOEXEC.BAT).