[dba-Tech] Bootable CD

Hi Arthur,

I have a fine external 3.5" floppy drive.  TEAC FD-05PUB USB  I ordered 
it when I got my new Dell Inspiron 9400 last spring.  I love it.

I would still like to know the answer about creating a bootable CD.

Best regards,
Tina

Arthur Fuller wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what defines a bootable CD? Back in the day, a bootable
> floppy was created with the sys command, which copied command.com and
> msdos.sys to the target, and you could then customize it with config.sys and
> autoexec.bat.
>
> The reason I'd like to know is that I still have a few 3.5 boot disks, but
> no 3.5 drive. Assuming such a thing is made, I suppose I could get an
> external 3.5" drive with a USB connection, but if there is an easy way to
> create a bootable CD and then create some directories on it, maybe that
> would get me where I want to go. For example, I downloaded several boot-sets
> from bootdisk.com, but they are all set up with several 3.5" disk images.
> Also I downloaded the new Google OS and copied its files to a CD but that
> didn't work.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> TIA,
> Arthur
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