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Bootstrap floppy to boot cd
Name: classicnet Date: September 8, 2004 at 02:07:45 Pacific OS: XP pro CPU/Ram: p133 upwards
Comment:
I have created a BartPC bootable cd rom. This boots up and runs a small windows program on clients machines. The problem is some machines do not have an option to boot from cd or the bios is password protected. Is there a way to boot from floppy then boot from CD
Name: etrader_x11 Date: September 8, 2004 at 02:21:22 Pacific
Reply:
I am not quite sure, but I think that you could create a batch file that would automatically execute a file on the CD drive. The problem is I don't know if the system is going to be aware of the CD drive without running some initializing programs.
etrader_x11
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Response Number 2
Name: etrader_x11 Date: September 8, 2004 at 02:24:52 Pacific
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May be you can create a bootable floppy, like a Win98 bootdisk and change the AUTOEXECUTE.BAT file to execute your file from the CD.
etrader_x11
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Response Number 3
Name: roamer_1 Date: September 8, 2004 at 11:39:36 Pacific
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No, BARTPE is NT, made from WinXP... no way I know of to fire XP from DOS... Perhaps it could be started somehow from the 6-disk XP startup set http://www.bootdisk.com .
You could make a mini98 boot CD that can be used from DOS, though maintaining both could be a drag...
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