"I was unable to extract the image file (win98sec.img), after trying the following applications: Nero, Roxio, DaemonTools, EasyBoot, and MagicISO. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought that this could "unpacked" not unlike a .zip"
If you downloaded the "non-Windows based" version, it is a zip file. Simply open up the zip file and you should see the win98sec.img file sitting there.
The advantage of the img file is that you don't need to feed Nero or Roxio a floppy. To create a bootable CD/DVD with Nero or Roxio, you normally have to feed it a bootable floppy disk for it to extract/convert to a boot image. But both allow you to specify an alternate boot image that's already been converted and stored as a hard disk file.
If you download the Windows-based file from bootdisk.com, you would use it to make a floppy disk and then feed that floppy to Nero/Roxio. The normal use of the non-Windows based version is to extract the boot image from the zip file and use it to manually create a floppy--same thing as the Window-based version, just not automatic. But because it's a multi-step process, you can just grab the boot image out of the zip file and feed it directly to Nero/Roxio as an alternate boot image. This saves you the trouble of making a floppy just to have Nero/Roxio convert it back to a boot image again. (And if you don't even have a floppy drive, that's a lot of trouble saved!)
"when I boot from the CD/DVD drive, it does boot into the familiar DOS mode. However, only some of the files I burned on the disc are visible when I use the DIR command. If I boot normally into Windows, and check the disc from Windows Explorer, I see all the files that I burned (including pqboot.exe, ptedit.exe). Why are these files not visible when booting from the disc?!"
If you can boot from the DVD, then you must have muddled through the above creation process successfully.
The trick, though, is understanding exactly what you are booting when you boot from a CD or DVD. You are booting the boot image, just as though you were booting from a real floppy. You'll see all the same screen messages as though you were booting from a floppy, and you'll be left at the "A:\>" prompt, just like a floppy. But the "floppy" here isn't your DVD, it's a virtual floppy drive, fictitously created by the CD/DVD boot process. (BTW, if you had a real floppy drive, it would become drive B: at this point.)
Drive A: will contain only those files that were included in the original boot image used to make the DVD. To see the rest of the files you added to your DVD project, you need to switch to the CD/DVD drive letter. (Incidentally, if your boot image included a menu to choose "with/without CD support", always select "with".) Watch the screen carefully during the boot process and you should see when it assigns a drive letter to the CD/DVD drive--often something like D: or E:. That's the drive letter under which you should find the rest of your files.
Dan, thank you for your response. It turns out the missing files are found on the r: drive, which I eventually discovered by typing "dir r:". Unfortunately, when I try to change the directory by typing "cd r:" it just bounces back to a: drive. So, I can see the files, but it appears I can't access or execute them. Any thoughts?
NETTY IS HERE
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December 27th, 2005 03:00
dg1261
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December 27th, 2005 04:00
"I was unable to extract the image file (win98sec.img), after trying the following applications: Nero, Roxio, DaemonTools, EasyBoot, and MagicISO. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought that this could "unpacked" not unlike a .zip"
If you downloaded the "non-Windows based" version, it is a zip file. Simply open up the zip file and you should see the win98sec.img file sitting there.
The advantage of the img file is that you don't need to feed Nero or Roxio a floppy. To create a bootable CD/DVD with Nero or Roxio, you normally have to feed it a bootable floppy disk for it to extract/convert to a boot image. But both allow you to specify an alternate boot image that's already been converted and stored as a hard disk file.
If you download the Windows-based file from bootdisk.com, you would use it to make a floppy disk and then feed that floppy to Nero/Roxio. The normal use of the non-Windows based version is to extract the boot image from the zip file and use it to manually create a floppy--same thing as the Window-based version, just not automatic. But because it's a multi-step process, you can just grab the boot image out of the zip file and feed it directly to Nero/Roxio as an alternate boot image. This saves you the trouble of making a floppy just to have Nero/Roxio convert it back to a boot image again. (And if you don't even have a floppy drive, that's a lot of trouble saved!)
"when I boot from the CD/DVD drive, it does boot into the familiar DOS mode. However, only some of the files I burned on the disc are visible when I use the DIR command. If I boot normally into Windows, and check the disc from Windows Explorer, I see all the files that I burned (including pqboot.exe, ptedit.exe). Why are these files not visible when booting from the disc?!"
If you can boot from the DVD, then you must have muddled through the above creation process successfully.
The trick, though, is understanding exactly what you are booting when you boot from a CD or DVD. You are booting the boot image, just as though you were booting from a real floppy. You'll see all the same screen messages as though you were booting from a floppy, and you'll be left at the "A:\>" prompt, just like a floppy. But the "floppy" here isn't your DVD, it's a virtual floppy drive, fictitously created by the CD/DVD boot process. (BTW, if you had a real floppy drive, it would become drive B: at this point.)
Drive A: will contain only those files that were included in the original boot image used to make the DVD. To see the rest of the files you added to your DVD project, you need to switch to the CD/DVD drive letter. (Incidentally, if your boot image included a menu to choose "with/without CD support", always select "with".) Watch the screen carefully during the boot process and you should see when it assigns a drive letter to the CD/DVD drive--often something like D: or E:. That's the drive letter under which you should find the rest of your files.
Dan Goodell
GreyMack
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December 27th, 2005 04:00
Message Edited by GreyMack on 12-26-2005 11:48 PM
nemodat
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December 27th, 2005 05:00
dg1261
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December 27th, 2005 10:00