Ultimate Boot CD

Sorry for the delay (been busy as hell moving house). I will attempt to issue an updated image for both FreeDOS AND MS-DOS within the next 7 days.

Just keep bugging me in case I fall behind.

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You have the linux version but no DOS version.

Tamara wrote:I burned the ISO file to a CD...

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Tamara wrote:The error I get is "Operating system Not Found"

http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm

But i'm now more interested in Windows 2000. It looks good for my pc. :P :D Do it! (-; @Anarki99 and as702 As recommended above, I'd definitely steer clear of the Windows Millenium Edition boot ISO and OS. For MS-DOS flavoured variants, DOS 6.22 and 7.10 are the safest bet. I'll be providing an MS-...

Sounds good. Having the app on the drive, and just finding a way to find it sounds like a good solution. I'm not familiar with xgrep or lmod. Can these search drives for a specific file? Quite easily. For instance, suppose isolinux passes the following variable to memdisk as follows UBCDCMD=HDDUP.E...

@as702 Can't you give a autoexec.bat file that searches all available drives for the path /dosapps/hddup/ , changes the current directory to it and runs hddup.exe . You can grab the right path from the memdisk command with getargs.com. Yeah, I use a similar method in NwDsk for UBCD4.11 and UBCD5.0b...

I think the problem lies in the answer to "You should be able to direct any write operations to the USB stick directly". I have no control over what directory temp files are written to. The author designed the latest version to be on a bootable USB drive all by itself, and I assume writes...

I don't think I understand. The program will easily fit in a 1.44 floppy image, but if it's in an image, I'm guessing I won't be able to write to to the image. True, but you should be able to save directly to the USB stick amirite? (-; Put simply, create a boot disk which runs to your desired spec....

Hmm...you could get rid of PESUE easily enough. However, the boot disk requires a ramdisk driver, which in turn, relies on there being a memory manager present. One solution would be to write your own boot disk with a custom config.sys and autoexec.bat. Would the program fit on a 1.44/2.88Mb image? ...

No worries. What we can do is reach a close approximation to your desired modus operandi . Firstly, look for the file /etc/global.set. From there, you can configure how the associated modules behave. For example, to disable CD-ROM prompt AND to disable auto-installation, insert the following: CDROM_...

I'm trying to install a small program into UBCD, installed on a USB drive, so that it can write back to it's directory. I've put the program in the DOSAPPS directory, and I think that part of it is OK (I'm not sure, I've never gone this far in customizing UBCD). Sounds good. The second problem is.....

Should be under Partitioning Tools. Contained within there exist plenty of alternatives in order to format your drive (FDISK, XDISK, GParted etc).

You could always contact Microsoft or the manufacturer of your laptop to see if you can obtain a replacement CD that way.

In the meantime, try the suggestions I posted earlier if you can.

Sorry to here about your employment status. )-: Before we proceed... track down the product key of your XP installation; this will either be located as a sticker on the back of the laptop or it is to found in the registry hive (use KeyFinder to extract the legitimate product key - http://www.magical...

Okay, try this... Boot into DOS using UBCD Format the hard drive using FAT32 (Ranish Partition Manager can do this) Once complete, insert your XP installation CD and copy the I386 folder to your hard drive. md c:\i386 cd t:\i386 copy *.* c:\i386 Then, change directory to your installation source... ...

This is bizarre. Irrespective of how your hard disk is formatted, the Windows XP installation CD should boot regardless; the fact that UBCD manages to boot makes the problem all the more confusing. Are you sure your installation CD is genuine or hasn't been damaged in any way? Can you test the CD on...

heh...that too.

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Can you still boot other CDs from the drive or is it just the XP disc?

Just to trying the debate into the open... I tried putting in the XP CD and after the press any key it says: PXE-E61 Media Test Failure, check cable... It sounds like your BIOS may be attempting to boot via network. Do you receive any other messages past this? If you can, access your BIOS settings a...