Re: Bootable CD ROM Bigger Than 2.88MB?

Jonathan Hirschman wrote:
Kenneth Loafman wrote:
I've ruled out bootdisk.com and a bunch of others due to this serious
limitation. Somewhere there has to be a site that explains how to build
a bootable CD without limiting it to floppy size. Or is there? I just
need to be able to put about 7MB on the CD, some for the msdos system,
and the rest for the two exe's
Um, you don't need more than 2.88MB - in fact, you really shouldn't need
more 1.44MB - for the bootable area.

Bootable CD's have two areas - the bootable area (size of the a floppy),
and the data area (the rest of the CD). Get a bootable image that has
drivers for your CD . Put the .exe in the data area, make the CD. Boot,
cd to the data area (typically D:), and then run the .exe from there.

If you can't get a bootable image that has IDE/ATAPI drivers for the CD,
then find a bootable image that has USB drivers (the one that comes with
Nero 6.x does). Boot from the CD, run the .exe's from a usb key/drive.

Thanks for the explanation. Seems I'm not the only one that's had this
misunderstanding. A fair number of articles out there explain in great
detail how to remove unneeded files so the ROM image will fit. That's
where I got the idea that it was limited to the floppy size.

...Ken

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