From the surfing, which led me here, it seems like ya cant make a dos boot cd with dos tools. The boot sector on the CD is the problem?

Am I correct that the solution would be to create a bootable, system floppy, then make an image of that, which includes the CD-ROM driver, and park the DISK.IMG file in a directory along with all the other files I want on the distribution CD?

Then use NERO or my Linux/XANDROS burner to create the iso from the dos directory where the DISK.IMG and other files are? And that's what gets burned on the CD?

There is a port of the program "mkisofs.exe" in DOS. This will make a dos-bootable disk. There are also programs around that will make and populate a dos boot image under DOS, even without having a floppy diskette available.

My imgcpy10a.zip is a rexx script that makes boot images of DOS disks (google for it). You need the dos port of regina (if you are using a purely dos environment) or some other rexx-under DOS.

So yes, you can make a dos-bootable cdrom from pure dos, even without a real floppy disk available.

W

@daybrown
Step by step instructions Here

If you need a forensically sound BOOT CD make the following changes to your floppy disk before creating the image:

In order to keep DRVSPACE, DBLSPACE or STACKER from altering the hard disk change the boot files (IO.SYS, IBMBIO.COM, etc.) so that the operating system doesn’t call the compression software or alter the DRVSPACE.BIN or DBLSPACE.BIN files.

To do this manually use a hex editor program and remove from the operating system files all references to DRVSPACE or DBLSPACE.BIN (change BIN to XYZ)

Also consider altering all the calls to any program or file on the C: drive to the A: drive. This will eliminate any chance that modification of files on the C: will take place, and if the boot disk is properly set up, the call to the A: drive will fail and not initiate any programs which may also change the C: drive.

Regards,

Is there a easier way without all that DOS editing stuff?
That is not for beginners (to DOS).
Huh?

Well, from what I understand, the idea is to make a DOS boot CD from under DOS.
It will be quite tricky if you are not willing to learn some DOS.
I mean I find hard to use a GUIless operating system if you don't want to fiddle with Command Line!

But you can make it under a GUI os, don't you?

jaclaz

Bart created several boot cds using Dos.
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

Use one example and edit it.