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Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2001 12:24 pm Post subject:

I'm trying to make a bootable Windows CD with some files that [cough]I found on an un-named FTP site[/cough].
When I tick the 'bootable CD' option it asks for a *.bin file. I don't have one and haven't got a clue about where to find/make one.
I understand that the boot-sector of the CD imitates a boot-floppy but don't know which files should live in there or how to roll them up into a .bin file.
I'm using CDRWin cos its free and someone (Brain I think) suggested it!
Any help on either bootable CDs in general or exactly which Winblows files wanna be in the bootable area would be much appreciated.

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Big Dog Joined: 20 Oct 2000 Posts: 3689 Location: USA

hey Chris

I'll take a look at it later and see if i can help you out

right now i'm in the middle of a 41 meg download that won't be done for another 5 hours, so i can't install the aspi layer (to get cdrwin working and look it up)

I'll try to get back later or tomorrow

If anyone else can help out Chris out it would be greatly appreciated

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Moderator Joined: 26 May 2001 Posts: 8155 Location: Borneo

*.BIN file is an image file of a floppy. I think Mandrake has a program (under windows) which lets you get the image file of a floppy. Most other operating systems have dd and in that case it would be

dd if=/wherever/you/floppy/is of=Name.BIN

I'm gettting bored about bootable cdroms questions
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2001 4:21 pm Post subject:

I think if you do a search on the forums for "boot CD or bootable CD" you will find a thread that talks about this issue. The way I make a bootable CD is by following my Easy CD creater software that came with my HP CD-RW. csign is right though, when making a bootable CD there is an image of a boot floppy disk on the CD, (strange, ain't it?).

When one of my bootable CD's is run, you would swear it was the floppy drive, complete with the "A:"

Do the search and see what you come up with. But I know there are some threads hanging out here somewhere on this issue..

PLD
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Big Dog Joined: 20 Oct 2000 Posts: 3689 Location: USA

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I think if you do a search on the forums for "boot CD or bootable CD" you will find a thread that talks about this issue. The way I make a bootable CD is by following my Easy CD creater software that came with my HP CD-RW. csign is right though, when making a bootable CD there is an image of a boot floppy disk on the CD, (strange, ain't it?).

When one of my bootable CD's is run, you would swear it was the floppy drive, complete with the "A:"

Do the search and see what you come up with. But I know there are some threads hanging out here somewhere on this issue..

PLD
Cave Canem!

right

I meant I'd fire up Cdr-win and see if there was a way to make the .bin file from within cdr-win

I've made them from within crappy-cd creator plenty of times

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Big Dog Joined: 20 Oct 2000 Posts: 3689 Location: USA

all right

after looking this morning, there isn't any way to create the "boot floppy" image from within CDR-WIN

the choices:

get a hold of sleazy-cd cremator 4.x or 5.x and do the dirty work

OR

use the program that Demon or SOS was pimpin the other day: . . . winimage

personally I'd go with choice #2

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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2001 9:52 am Post subject:

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all right

after looking this morning, there isn't any way to create the "boot floppy" image from within CDR-WIN

the choices:

get a hold of sleazy-cd cremator 4.x or 5.x and do the dirty work

OR

use the program that Demon or SOS was pimpin the other day: . . . winimage

personally I'd go with choice #2

I used to use ez-cd 4 but it did a highly efficient terminator impression on my PC when I upgraded to Win2k, hence use of CDRWin.
I'll have a go with WinImage... hey if Demon and SOS were pimpin' for it, it can't be all bad!!

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