creating a windows XP boot CDROM without a floppy drive

[Amandla]

I'm trying to get my apple mac to work as a dual boot machine. I'm
getting stuck at the step where I need a bootable windows XP cdrom.

I've managed to slipstream service pack 2 with XP into a directory.
However getting this to a bootable CDROM is proving difficult.

I've got a PC, and HP omnibook,actually, with XP running, however I
discover that, not having been used for a couple of years, the floppy
drive doesn't work. So I can't format a floppy with as a bootable
floppy in order to copy the boot sectors from it.

I've got Nero and I've tried to install a CDROM using its alterantive
option - but that just boots up in DRDOS and I can't seem to get
windows to run from that.

Is there something obvious I've been missing? Or is there somewhere
that I can download the correct 2k of boot information to get it to
create a CDROM properly?

It is beyond me why this apparently simple step is proving so
difficult!

 

[peter]

see step 4
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sp2_slipstream.asp
peter

 

[Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]]

Create a bootable CD (Using Nero 6)

1) Extract all of the files to one directory on your hard disk.

2) Download xpboot.bin from www.dougknox.com/xp/xpboot.zip and extract it
from the ZIP file. It does not need to be in the same folder as the files
from the ISO's.

3) Open Nero 6 and create a new CD-ROM (Boot) compilation.

a) On the Boot tab, select the Image File radio button and point it to
the xpboot.bin file you downloaded earlier.
b) Check the box Enable expert settings.
c) For Kind of emulation, select No Emulation.
d) On the boot tab, leave the Load segment of sectors at 07C0.
e) On the boot tab, change the number of loaded sectors to 4.
f) On the Label tab, in the ISO 9660 box enter WB2PFRE_EN

No other changes should be necessary in the New Compilation dialog.

4) Click the New button on the compilation dialog.

5) Drag the files you extracted with ISOBuster into the left pane of the
window. You can also include folders that contain drivers, tools and other
files that you know you'll be installing. You're only limited by what will
fit on a CD.

6) Burn the compilation to CD and you're all done.

Note: If your Apple supports bootable DVD's, you can use a DVD instead. I
do this so I have all my major apps, as well as the OS on a single DVD so
don't have to hunt for disc sets when a clean install is done.