multi boot CD with ERD commander and Disk command

[Tracky110XP]

I\'m currently making a multi boot cd following Twinkie\'s informaiton (Thanks a ton for that) between:
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Windows 2000 Professional
Windows 2000 Server
Windows Advanced Server
ERD Commander 2002
Dos utilities
NT password changer
Windows Millennium Startup Disk
Windows 98 SE Startup Disk
Windows 98 Startup Disk
Windows 95B Startup Disk
Disk Commander
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so far so good untill i tried to add in the disk commander. Both the ERD commander and diskcommander want to have their files stored in an i386 folder on the root of the cd.

i tried to go into the setupldr and change the refferences from the i386 to dmcd (for the diskcommander) so that they are not running the same folder name.

that failed do to the boot.bin still pointed to the i386 folder and it then proceeded to boot into the ERD commander 2002.

does anyome have any idea how to get both the erd commander 2002 and disk commander to boot on the same CD?

[Tracky110XP]

i figured this one out myself,

after setting up the files for the disk commander you need to rename the i386 folder to DCMD. edit the setupldr.bin with the hex editor and change all refferances to i386 to DCMD. cap matters here.

then the rename the bootcat.bin to DCMD.bin and edit this in the hex editor as well and there is one reffernace to an i386 near the end of the file, change this to DCMD.

then with using the rest of the information provided by tech-hints.com i was able to get the above boot menu to work just fine.

Next up is adding the ontrack suite in the boot menu as well.

[Fjellu]

Could you please advise how you integrated ERD Commander into your CD.

[Tracky110XP]

Sure,

First off get the ERD commander 2002, not 2000. best way to find the program is to look for the Winternals Administrators Pak.

follow through with creating the ISO and then copy the files from the CD, they also give you the path of where the temp files are located. copy those into a temp directory.

rename the bootsect.bin to erd.bin

then put the files into the root folder that you setup using tech-hints.com

now edit the diskemu.cmd for another entry into ERD commander 2002 pointing to the file of erd.bin

you don\'t need to use a hex editor with this one, Unless you want to put in the disk commander like i was trying to do, then you need to start messing around with either the disk commander OR erd commander.

[Twinkie]

What\'s funny is I have both programs and never thought about putting them on my multi-boot CD until your post.  Anyway, both want to use their own i386 folder.  So what I did was leave the i386 folder alone for ERD and rename disk commanders to DKCM.  A quick edit with a hex-editor to change i386 to DKCM and it all worked fine.  Don\'t edit either txtsetup.sif files though.  Unless moving the folders off of ROOT.  Rename both .bin files to erd.dat and dkcm.dat for your boot files.  Edit diskemu to add those files and you should be done.  Note: If you don\'t edit the content of your bin files you can just rename them without a hex-editor.  Hopefully I did not miss anything.  Sent me a followup message if I did.  I think I will add this to the site soon.

Thanks,

[Fjellu]

Yeah, do so!!!

I think there are mooe like me that would like a W2KAll site with a few extras

[Fjellu]

I followed your and Tracky\'s instructions. When loading Disk Commander with Virtual PC i get an error:
File i386ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded.
The error code is 14

[Fjellu]

Sorry!!
Forgot to change the 3 references from i386 to DCMD in setupldr.bin for Disk Commander

But when booting with Virtual PC it just shut down after \"Starting Windows 2000\". Have to check if it is a Virtual PC limitation.