Customizing UBCD

Do to license restrictions, the Ultimate Boot CD does not contain boot disks of commercial software eg. MS-DOS, Windows, Ghost etc. It also does not contain boot disks specific to your environment eg. network drivers, SCSI drivers etc. Finally, it may not always contain the most up-to-date virus definitions. This section talks about how to create your own customized Ultimate Boot CD, tailored to your specific needs.

First, extract all the files on the UBCD to a directory on your harddisk such as c:\ubcd. If you wish, you can directly extract the files from the ISO image using a tool such as WinISO, Daemon Tools or 7-Zip.

You should have a directory structure that looks like:

c:\ubcd\ boot\ custom\ dosapps\ images\ isolinux\ menus\ syslinux\ tools\ website\ autorun.inf ubcd.ico

You can now customize the Ultimate Boot CD by adding your own floppy images to the CD. Floppy disk images can be created from the physical floppy disks themselves by using utilities such as rawread, or Floppy Image (you need to goto "Settings", and select "Create compatible IMG files"). Put your own floppy images in the custom subdirectory.

Then edit c:\ubcd\custom\custom.cfg and add each floppy disk image to the menu.

For example:

LABEL prtmagic MENU LABEL Partition Magic KERNEL memdisk APPEND initrd=/custom/prtmagic.img

Finally, at the command prompt, from c:\ubcd\tools\ubcd2iso, type:

ubcd2iso c:\ubcd c:\ubcd40.iso

This will create ubcd40.iso in C:\.

Additional resources:

UBCD DOS boot disk based on MS-DOS 7 (Contributed by Erwin Veermans)