Boot CD?

[T3chGuy]

Ok this is probably a stupid question but I can't find anything on the net telling me how to do this so I am turning to my fellow techs. I have the 4 Windows 2000 boot disks. I also have a laptop which does not have a disk drive that I would like to use the boot disks for! How can I make a boot CD with the files that are on the 4 disks? I have Nero. I tried making the first CD a boot disk using disk one from the four windows 2000 disks. It came up and asked me to put disk 2 in drive a: and then spent some time thinking about where a: might be and gave up as there is no disk drive and hence no a: on my laptop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Davetoo]

Why don't you just boot from the W2K CD instead?

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It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[T3chGuy]

I don't know where the windows 2000 CD is. =-(

 

[Davetoo]

What are you eventually trying to accomplish? Without the CD you're fairly limited on what you can do.

I'm Certifiable, not certified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[RCorrigan]

If all you are looking for is a CD that will boot the PC try

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

or google for Knoppix

HTH

<Do I need A Signature or will an X do?>

 

[wolluf]

Would echo lander - if you tell us what you are trying to achieve we may be better placed to help.

 

[bcastner]

What he wants to do is to take the floppy images, combine them, and create a bootable CD ROM. If have yet to see a satisfactory answer for this.

In a related note, it I have yet to see a good way to create a bootable slipstream-able CD from Recovery Disks.

I would love to see an answer to either or both questions.

 

[Davetoo]

Yes, but I'm afraid he's trying to reinstall Windows on this system, in which case the boot disks alone will do him no good.

Reason being, I rarely require the boot disks for anything else, and if indeed that's what he's trying to do, it's a moot issue about combining the boot disks to a bootable CD. I'm busy enough as it is to answer questions that haven't really been asked yet. ;-) Especially since a lot of users don't utilize the search function, so therefore it's use would be limited.

I'm Certifiable, not certified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[RCorrigan]

lander215 On the nail .... why rather than how !!!
Like i said, if it just for a peruse of the disk Knoppix !!!

<Do I need A Signature or will an X do?>

 

[T3chGuy]

The reason that I am trying to make a boot CD for windows 2000 is so that I can try and run a PCMCIA serial device in a simulated DOS environment and make sure I can get it to work with the third party (non-supported) drivers before I blank the system of all windows related items (leaving me rather helpless to get drivers/software/info from the net and load just DOS. What I have ended up doing is creating a new partion on the disk and setting up a dual boot (one for windows and one for DOS).

It looks like the moral of the story is don't lose the windows 2000 disk ;-).

Cheers

 

[xwb]

Depends where you got your system from. Some suppliers may put the installation stuff on the disk. See if you can find a directory called I386 or options. You will probably find the whole windows installation there.