creating bootable CD

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Guest

i used Nero to try and create a copy of a bootable TCP/IP floppy disk onto a CD and copied floppy contents into the CD-ROM (Boot) compilation option and selected to use floppy disk as boot sector.
It starts booting from CD and then says:
sector not found writing drive A
i checked the autoexec.bat and config.sys and nothing in there is indicating it needs to write to the floppy. Any ideas clever people?
 
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Pegasus \(MVP\)

Biscuit said:
i used Nero to try and create a copy of a bootable TCP/IP floppy disk onto
a CD and copied floppy contents into the CD-ROM (Boot) compilation option
and selected to use floppy disk as boot sector.
It starts booting from CD and then says:
sector not found writing drive A
i checked the autoexec.bat and config.sys and nothing in there is
indicating it needs to write to the floppy. Any ideas clever people?

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The DOS network start process writes to at least one file on A:. You can
easily prove this by write-protecting your network boot diskette, then
booting from it - same result as with your CD! You have to change the
network start process so that it writes to C: only.
 
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Steve Parry [MVP]

In
Biscuit said:
i used Nero to try and create a copy of a bootable TCP/IP floppy disk
onto a CD and copied floppy contents into the CD-ROM (Boot)
compilation option and selected to use floppy disk as boot sector. It
starts booting from CD and then says:
sector not found writing drive A
i checked the autoexec.bat and config.sys and nothing in there is
indicating it needs to write to the floppy. Any ideas clever people?

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;167685
 

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