I have created a bootable CD from my own legit DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 Floppy's, I can boot and install DOS and then Boot and choose to install windows, although I had to figure a slight workaround for the windows problem of wanting to modify the Autoexec and Config off the boot drive, (so far so good) burned the CD and booted, installed DOS then re boot install generic CDROM Device driver, Third boot Install Windows (with workaround) now this is all going well until I decide to try this with an unpartitioned drive, it allocates all free space and then starts asking for DOS disk one to format, I have tried to rename the volume lable of the CD I've even hex edited dossetup.ini and altered the vol lable there, this is beginning to drive me nuts, all I want is a bckup CD of my old OS that can set up a system from CD, I know I can fdisk and format it manually (started on DOS 1 in 1983) and I pretty much know my stuff, (ahem! blows on finger nails and shines them on chest) :) but I never stop learning by messing and as I am a perfectionist (or as anita would put it a pain in the arse) :) I would like to defeat this damn thing and get the perfect install CD P.S. the boot image of the CD is the DOS 6.22 disk 1 with the autoexec and config edited from a 98 boot disk and the findcd.exe hex edited to look for %c\dos\setup.exe%c instead of the win98 folder and the workaround for the autoexec config.sys windows install problem is setting the comspec (set comspec=c:\command.com) and the path to include c:\;c:\dos, then when windows pops the error up (cannot access system file on a:) you click cancel (it asks a few times) and the autoxeec.bat on the boot image floppy copies the Autoexec.win and Config.win from c:\windows (where the install saves the edited ones from c:) and overwrites the root files, a bit ugly but it works :) ahhhgggrrr help!

What prog are you using to write with. Some bootable writer progs emulate a: drive, ie the boot file is loaded as a: and your a: then becomes b: (until you try to access it)