Re: [Simply Computers] Bootable Cd

 

Thank you for a very thorough synopsis of what you want to do and what you've done.

Since I don't know anything about your topic area, when I googled, bootable dos cd I came up with the following. Take a look here for a boot disk options, some of which include MS-DOS. The first several hits seem particularly pertinent if I understand your message correctly.

http://bit.ly/kR2TYy

--- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, bharat maheshbhai <bmpandya1965@...> wrote:
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> Dear Vincent,
>     I have s/w which can be run in MSDOS Os only. All systems are running in winxp. I am having one HDD having dos os on it. The s/w is running well If I boot thru hdd with dos os. I want to run the s/w thru CD only which contains this s/w and related data without changing hdd having winxp os. To get bootable cd ,  I had boot thru HDD with dos os and also run  device driver vide-cdd.sys  and mscdex to datect   cd drive in dos os. Now CD drive is detected and it shows contents on it thru command DIR E:\ .To make bootable cd I had tried to format blank cd with command format e:/u/s.It show msg. Cannot format network drive.
>    In short I want to boot system thru  DOS bootable cd though the system hdd is having win xp os.
> Pl help.
> Thanks,chandu.     Pl. tell me what should I do to 
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> --- On Sat, 7/2/11, Vincent Winterling <vwinterling@...> wrote:
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> From: Vincent Winterling <vwinterling@...>
> Subject: RE: [Simply Computers] Bootable Cd
> To: simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, July 2, 2011, 5:27 AM
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> It's not clear to me what you're trying to do.
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> If you could tell us some of what you've done and what you want to achieve
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> perhaps we can help.
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> Vincent Winterling
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> Vineland, NJ
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
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> [mailto:simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of chandu tilak
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> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 9:26 AM
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> To: simply computers
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> Subject: [Simply Computers] Bootable Cd
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> Hi,
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>    I had tried to make MSDos cd from Hdd having DOS os. It says Can't format
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> Network drive.
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>      Is there any other way to do the same?. I want to run some dos based
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> software from cd only.
>
> Thanks,chandu.

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