ORIGINAL THREAD - Click Here Hello all :) As my earlier post left me no where to go, I am doing a repost of the same. Any workarounds appretiated and I will ofc follow this thread. :)

As in the other thread, without a floppy, this gets much harder than it needs to. You're stuck with buring an image. Once you do, you can not add anything to the CD. So you either get everything you need into the image from the get go or you make one plain-vanilla boot CD, then a second one with the \win98 you need. Boot on the first one and slap on the second one. M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

If I add all files i need to the iso image then will that image when burnt still be bootable? or i must waste another CD trying it!

Kailas, What the Langa articles are saying is that you need to make the CD emulate a floppy disk. It does so by fooling the PC to think that the CD is a floppy and then once at the DOS prompt you can then access the CD contents such as Win98's setup.exe. Otherwise, perhaps the following application, from NoNags.com, or a similar application will suffice: Quoting: CD Splash CD Splash 1 for Win9x/ME/Win2k/XP (500 kb) Updated: Jul 25, 2004 Author: Cubic Software Design Description: CD Splash is a program for everyone (beginner and advanced) who want to impress his friends. By putting this program on your CDs an amazing splash will appear every time you run the CD. You can choose to automatically display an image, to play a sound file (wav, mp3, midi...), to start a program or multimedia file (for example a movie with you saying 'hello' to every person who run your CD). Features of CD Splash: - the splash has a low load time (almost instantly) - it works with relative paths - program is very small and doesn't need DLLs, OCX, VBRuntimes or other external files - it works with JPG, BMP, EMF files and any type of multimedia files - CDSplash is instructed through a script file (an INI file), but you don't have to know ABSOLUTELY nothing about programming. - the splash settings (INI) process is done in a true graphical and user friendly interface (an INI-Editor) - it is really small - it is freeware The INI-EDITOR generates the script files and the 'Autorun.INF' file BUT you don't have to know nothing about these files. This is only an irrelevant technical description. You have this INI-EDITOR to take care of everything. FEATURES: - it won't let you to make mistakes (it includes a detection algorithm for inexistent file/path) - it offers help, instructions and tips to the user in a dynamic way - it doesn't need DLLs or other external files - it is really small - it is freeware - it doesn't need to be installed/uninstalled - it doesn't mess your registry or system with unneeded DLLs or other craps like this End of quote I have not tried this freebie and hopefully they know how to code a program better than they know how to code a webpage. I had difficulties getting to the page with the download and their link to "More info" is also the download link. That is why I have copied and pasted the information from the Nonags website. To download the .zip file click on the word "CD Splash" in the middle column of their page. http://www.soft.tahionic.com/cd-splash.html or right click and select "Save target as" on the following link: CD-Splash.zip 500Kb Regards, Bryan

thanks, will try it out. but the Langa method requires you to have a boot floppy from which the emulation takes place. Now what if a PC does not have a floppy drive? In such a case there is no way of making a boot cd WITH other files like OS setup on it?

Yes, I think you are missing something important, here. A factory bootable CD works like no other device I know of, that is--when you boot to a floppy, you can see all the files on the floppy, right there on A:. When you boot to a normal hard drive, same deal--everything is on "C:" However, when you boot to (say, an OEM '98 cd) the cd boots up to a sort of hidden partition of the cd--you can't read the boot sector when you pop the cd into a running windows machine--but when you BOOT the cd, it shows up as the "A:" drive. If you happen to HAVE a floppy drive (normally A) in the machine, and try and use it while the CDROM is booted, you'll find that your floppy letter has been temporarily pushed to "B:" So when you're booted to a CDROM, it "acts" like there is a bootable device known as "A" and the main part of the cdrom,with most of the data, is "some other letter," normally D. YOU CANNOT "see" this "A:" drive of the CD when you try and browse the thing in Whedows. You can "copy" or duplicate the entire CD in your burner software, and it will copy the boot sector, but if you are CREATING one, you need a source for this.

Hi Bryan, Yeah, no shortage of boo-boos there. Two other links 'HTML Enforder' for one, lead to the CD-Splash.zip LOL M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.