Author Topic: \"Real\" windows boot CD (Read 106719 times)

Anonymous · « **Reply #60 on:** January 08, 2003, 10:06:11 AM »

Will this work on 2000 and/or XP?

Anonymous · « **Reply #61 on:** January 12, 2003, 02:51:46 AM »

try looking at a compaq smart start boot cd it boots windows from the cd.

Anonymous · « **Reply #62 on:** January 12, 2003, 08:02:41 PM »

Surely, the way to do this (as someone already has done though his post seems to have been misunderstood) is to set up a working W98 installation with a fixed swap file size on C: all of which is less than 700MB. Using Nero you can burn a boot CD, using C: as the \'Bootable logical drive\'. The whole of C: is then imaged and burned on to the CD. Done! Simple - no fancy tricks.
When you boot from the CD, it \'emulates\' C: drive and all your HDD partitions are shifted one letter down the alphabet, ie C: becomes D: etc etc.

Anonymous · « **Reply #63 on:** January 15, 2003, 10:06:05 PM »

I\'ve gotten it working - part of the way....I can\'t get the cd burned/booting right.

I am able to surf the internet, even have a temporary internet folder

I made my ram disk 100 mgs to support the temp internet files.

The_Flames · « **Reply #64 on:** January 16, 2003, 10:56:56 AM »

if you just do that when the cd boots you find reg problems as it read only, and swap file problems as that is read only as well.

The goal of the cd is to have a working 9x system that boots off a cd and works on most systems

Anonymous · « **Reply #65 on:** January 23, 2003, 12:43:52 AM »

sorry to bust in here, but what you are trying to do is very easy if you wouldn\'t mind using a diffrent OS, I have many of these CD\'s running BeOS, they boot and run whatever you want, they will also access allmost any other drive, and make a image of it if you want, if you really get deep you can tell it to use your floppy to store things, since it cant write to itself, and sence Be uses a better way of running drivers they will work in most computers, all you need to do is download the free version of BeOS, install it in windows, boot to it, then use its built in burner software to burn the image you booted to, plus the floppy boot image, and bang, a OS that runs from a cd, it will tell you on boot it can\'t open its swap file and then run beautiful, like I wish windows would, any ways theres lots of info at say www.bebits.com www.betips.net etc

Anonymous · « **Reply #66 on:** January 24, 2003, 03:26:49 AM »

Hi that sounds good, and i have tried using beos before but always seem to have troubles trying to get it to run all off a cdrom from the image created and by using the floppy disk image that comes with the free version, i have burned the images to the cdrom as a bootable cdrom, but it never seems to work properly for me,,could you send more info on how this can be done, thanks

TheQuietAchiver. · « **Reply #67 on:** January 27, 2003, 10:08:56 PM »

I have found the way of running beos from a cdrom now, the way i did it is by installing beos, then running beos and setting it up the way that you like it to run from the cdrom.

From there reboot back to windows and start up nero burning rom, select to create a bootable cdrom and select the Floppy.img that is located in the c:beos directory as the boot image and burn that to the cdrom.

After that has been burned to the cdrom, go back to nero and from the file menu select burn image, and select the other image file called c:beosimage.be and burn that to the cdrom as a block size of 2048.

then test out the cdrom and if every thing worked ok, it should bootup to a screen about installing beos onto your hard drive, so just press ctrl+alt+del and select restart desktop, then you can click on the installer program in the taskbar and select hide, thats all i have done so far with it all, hope this helped as well.

Anonymous · « **Reply #68 on:** January 28, 2003, 03:45:24 PM »

boot cd\'s are easy to make
if you have a img so that you burn it
and command com of your system to it it
will boot anytime
but to make a boot back up is a little harder but it can be done
some one has tried me mainly

The_Flames · « **Reply #69 on:** January 29, 2003, 09:43:05 AM »

Using BEOS is one way but ...

I\'m sure this thread is for a \"Real\", Windows bootable cd .

the challenge is to get win 9x running of a cd with no instalation, no HDD

Jazkal · « **Reply #70 on:** January 29, 2003, 11:16:15 AM »

I would think you would either have to set the pagefile to nothing or run a small swap off the ramdrive. It would be better IMO to run with no swap.

Anonymous · « **Reply #71 on:** February 04, 2003, 07:39:59 PM »

In this thread I have heard about many people not being able to use much because they can\'t write to a CD. Well what if you used it in a computer with a CD Burner and a CDRW media. Is there a way to trick windows into thinking that this burner is a hard drive. Sure it would be slow but it would let you use just about anything.

Anonymous · « **Reply #72 on:** February 10, 2003, 03:54:58 PM »

Have none of you guys done ANY research ? CD-bootable Windows is entirely doable - that\'s how commercial organisations make OEM products with embedded versions of windows (that or on Flash memory). You need to BUY MS\'s XP-Embedded product or its predecessor NT Embedded. Does it very nicely. Expect about 3 months to familiarise, another month or two faffing around, then you get a bootable OS - then about £100 each licence for working copies. See it in the MSDN site. Good luck all

The_Flames · « **Reply #73 on:** February 10, 2003, 08:12:49 PM »

If you read the thread the main OS of choice for this is 95/98 as teh memory & cpu requitements are lower and the apps that are wanted run on them

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Anonymous · « **Reply #74 on:** February 12, 2003, 06:02:32 PM »

This link has some good stuff. Works too.
Mike

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?id=160...ect=article.cfm

The_Flames · « **Reply #75 on:** February 12, 2003, 07:17:20 PM »

I dont think a guide to\"Creating a bootable Windows XP SP1 CD (Nero) is relevent here :|

cpumore · « **Reply #76 on:** February 18, 2003, 10:49:55 AM »

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Fox · « **Reply #77 on:** February 19, 2003, 11:14:08 AM »

French translation of the page : http://www.heise.de/ct/Service/English.htm/99/11/206/ (in english)
can be found (reorganised) here :
http://severinterrier.free.fr/Boot/WindowsCD.htm (in french)

If it can help someone speaking (and reading) french...

I\'ve been able to make a bootable CD of Windows 95 B, that just doesn\'t show icones correctly (don\'t understand why) but i\'ve got problems making a Win98 SE bootable CD...

Hope this helps...

noLIFEr · « **Reply #78 on:** March 04, 2003, 12:27:25 AM »

Anything new in this project? I\'ve got the same project going, and now I\'m trying to transfer that install to cd-r. Was there some kind of errors in http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/11/206/ tutorial? If there was, how can I fix those...?

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Anonymous · « **Reply #79 on:** March 06, 2003, 07:02:46 AM »

I once was told that the solution is to have an image and decompress it to a virtual disk wich then gets booted.

The process sounds a bit C-ish, but anyway.

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