Can I convert a boot floppy to boot CD?

[Bob Burwell]

The floppy is a bootable disk with a diagnostics program called PC-CHECK by Eurosoft. I want to transfer it to CD so I copied the files on to a CD, changed the boot setting to CD but it did not boot from that. Any ideas on how I can do this?

[mjc]

Yes, but it isn't quite as simple as just copying the files over...

What burning software are you using to make the CD?

Most have an option to create a bootable CD. You need to make sure that option is enabled before burning, at the very least.

[Bob Burwell]

I used Roxio Burner 1.0.91.0. It seems a bit basic and I don't see that option to create a bootable CD.

[Sylvander]

See how: here at Paul Komski's webpage on the topic on "DIY Bootable CDs". (http://paulski.com/zpages.php?id=1814)

[Bob Burwell]

Thanks for that. It's not as easy as I first thought! Just noticed that one of those first links - the mkisofs utility "from cdrtools-latest" does not work.