Dos Boot cd

[psycopatchet69]

I need some help with this ones, ive already wasted about 8 cds because i know nothing about DOS.

I need to make a Dos Boot CD, Not one that emulates itself as a floppy, but an actual cd, that i can put my own files on to be used while in DOS, so i guess it needs cd-rom support too. Problem - The computer i plan to run this on has no hard drive in it.

Can ANyone help me out here?

[dglienna]

If it wil boot to the CD, you could look here. Also google autoexec.bat and conig.sys

You will also need DOS. v 6.2 was pretty good

http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/15287.html

[psycopatchet69]

Thanks for the reply, but not exactly what i was looking for.

I dont know anything really about dos, and ive already wasted 8 cd-rs working on this. Ive googled everything, and i just cant get it to work.

Everything ive tried always takes the cd and does some floppy disk emulation.
My computer WILL boot from cd, its a fairly new computer, with a fried harddrive that i took out. Im trying to make a cd FULL of dos-games for my son to play...
I need to have the cd boot dos, and not be in floppy emulation mode, so im assuming that ill also need cd-support on the cd. Ive tried booting a floppy with cd support and then just reading files from the cd, but that doesnt want to work either, keeps telling me no memory because it wants to intstall the driver on the hdd, when there is none.

This should be very simple...but for me its not.

1.Cd boots dos
2.Cd loads mouse.com
3.Cd loads any other drivers if nescicary.
4.Dos needs to be able to read from cd, with default Directory set as the cd drive.

Can you, or someone else, help me more indepth-ly with this please?

[Ideas Man]

For starters, use CD-RWs, not CD-Rs when doing this type of testing, that way you can format and start again.

If you have a Windows 98 floppy, then it should not ask for the HDD, it automatically sets up memory management and all that so it should be a non issue. Like suggested above, one thing todo would be to install MS-DOS, the last version available before it became a part of Windows and burn that onto a CD. I'm unsure how you'd do this w/o a HDD though, maybe install it on a Virtual PC and copy the files off the virtual pc image onto a CD.

[psycopatchet69]

Yeah, ive already been there and done that. I just need help with making the cd actually boot if i do it from scratch instead of using a boot image. Also the autoexec.bat.

[Harsh Gupta]

u can easily create a bootable cd-disk using buring softwares like nero.....just go through the help file of nero for "bootable disks" n it will show you how to do it..........but u will still need a bootable floppy for this................and plz use a cd-rw before u actually write it permanently wot ideas man suggested u!!

[tr333]

i believe FreeDOS allows you to create a boot-cd. correct me if im wrong on this.

[wossname]

"Dos Boot"

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[psycopatchet69]

Yeah, i saw something about that a while back, and tried it, it does floppy emulation on the cd, which is exactly what i dont need. Can someone PLEASE help me in-depth on this project?