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Floppy boot disk to cd boot disk

Asked by mojo_4664 in Operating Systems Miscellaneous

Tags: boot

Hi, I have Symantec Ghost Solution Suite 1.0 and am trying to make a boot CD rather than a boot disk. This isn't really important, as it doesn't impact the answer to my question.

Basically, right now Ghost doesn't support making boot CD's so I'm on my own, and I want to make a CD rather than a disk so I can fit more drivers on. The floppy system is already up to two disks with just one network card driver!

So, I have tried both WinISO and Roxio Easy CD Creator to create a boot cd image from the boot floppy generated by symantec (I have done some editing to support the CD drive and added a menu to select the desired network card driver and so on). This works fine. If I burn that image as-is to the CD the computers will boot from it.

However, the floppy did not contain ghost.exe or any drivers as they take up a lot of space. I was using the floppy to generate the boot data, and would simply add the other needed files later. However, after generating the boot data, I dragged the extra folders such as "GHOST" which contains "ghost.exe" and three other folders containing drivers and more configuration data into my project so they would get added to the CD on top of all the boot files from the image. These folders and files are NOT availible once I boot from the disk. All the files that were on the floppy originally are there, but none of the ones I added just before burning. Also, if I check the contents of the cd once I'm in windows, the folders and files I added ARE availible while all of the boot files are not.

My boot system *should* work fine if I can only make the folders and files I want to add availible when booting off the disk. Anyone know whats making my life difficult?

Thanks for any help.
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