WinXP & Vista CD BootDisk w/USB mouse & keyboard

[davec12]

I want to create my own CD Boot Disk that will use various DOS programs for
this and that.

Since building a new computer using an Intel DP35DP motherboard - no PS 2
ports any longer - I can't use my old floppy disk based versions. However, CD
booting must be a science in itself since everywhere I've looked on the
Internet offers a different method ... none of which worked for me.

I have used EZ CD Creator 9.1 LE successfully to create a disk that boots,
but doesn't work since I can't figure our HOW to use - or if I have to - USB
drivers to operate the USB mouse and keyboard.

Does anyone here know how to do this? I imagine it involves writing
instructions to the AUTOEXEC.BAT AND CONFIG.SYS files - another old science,
I know - to accomplish this.

All I am trying to accomplish is booting to a DOS prompt from which I can
launch my old copies of Ghost_03, IBM's Wipe.exe and other various DOS file
management files. That is, EDIT, DELTREE, et al.

 

[Don Phillipson]

I want to create my own CD Boot Disk that will use various DOS programs for
this and that. . . .
All I am trying to accomplish is booting to a DOS prompt from which I can
launch my old copies of Ghost_03, IBM's Wipe.exe and other various DOS file
management files. That is, EDIT, DELTREE, et al.

Is this not the sort of task for which VirtualPC was distributed,
viz. software emulation of DOS on a WinXP PC ?

 

[davec12]

Is this not the sort of task for which VirtualPC was distributed,
viz. software emulation of DOS on a WinXP PC ?

Thanks, Don. I'm looking at that now. Hmmm. Interesting.