Originally posted by anita2002
1)What are the advantages of making an IMAGE of data and burn it? Why not to write just the data as it is to CD?
You can do that if the CD writing software supports it, check the help files that come with it to work out wether or not you need to make an image first. I have yet to find one that doesn't need to have a hard drive partition the same size as the target CD (but then I haven't looked too hard!)

2)Can we use the remaining blank space left on the bootable CD, as hardly 1% or 2% of the CD space will be occpied.
You can put extra files on when you create it, but the majority of CD drives (not recent ones) won't be able to read it unless it is finalised (locked for writing).

3)Will it work if we just burn the contents of the Bootale floppy to the CD and after that can we make the CD bootable with "NERO" as "si_the_geek" said. [/B]
Yes, except you don't write it and then make it bootable, you write it as a bootable CD in the first place.


For Nero (and probably most other software) the best thing to do is to make a 640MB partition on a hard drive, copy to it the boot files and any others you want to have on the CD. You can then test it by booting your computer to that partition/drive. Once you are sure it is ok then use Nero to create a bootable CD from it.