Boot disk vs Startup disk

[BikeMan]

Hi all,

I am reading W2K help, which implies that you need 4 FLOPPIES to make a boot disk. WWWhaat? Isn\'t bootdisk the same as in NT 4, you just have several files such as boot.ini bla bla bla.

Even ERD takes only one floppy. I\'m thoughroughly confused about the diffrerence in Boot disk vs Startup disk.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

FDV here, too lazy to log in...
There is some confusion in terminology here.
The 3/4 disk set (winnt.exe /OX) is for installing Windows NT/2k on a machine without it. (Bad bad bad, make a bootable CD, it will literally save _hours_ when installing.) This is not to \"make a boot disk.\"
A boot disk, sometimes called an Emergency Repair disk or ERD in the NT/2k world, is the single floppy with minimal files on it and is intended as more of a rescue disk, though it is often casually referred to, confusingly, as a boot disk. True DOS and Win 9x boot disks are as well (used to boot an NT/2k server or workstation with FAT filesystems (or NTFS filesystems, but now we\'re getting into Winternals specialty software)).
FDV