Next message: Wilcox, Curtis: "RE: [WinMac] Win ME bootable "floppy" CD help."
Yes, I have tried booting from the floppy drive. No luck.
The CD doesn't boot from any of the Win systems I have at home, so I
assume that it just doesn't do it without the floppy. I do know that
Win2k boots from the Win2k CD.
I am using Nero 5.5. Sounds like what you are talking about is a
multi-session CD? I suppose I could try to make a copy of the ME CD and
then add the floppy contents. Would that be enough to get it to work? No
need to edit the Autoexec.bat and config.sys files from the floppy?
Should Joliet be enabled? Would I be making an ISO 9660 (1) or (2) CD?
Cheers,
Brian
Wilcox, Curtis wrote:
>On 2/20/03 8:07 AM, "Brian Durant" <durant@cbn.net.id> wrote:
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>>Hi again,
>>
>>I am trying to create a Win ME bootable "floppy" CD to install Win ME on
>>a Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin EasyPC. The Celvin, like the Imac, has no built
>>in floppy drive, only a third party USB floppy that was purchased
>>separately. That means, no booting from the floppy drive to get ME
>>installed.
>>
>>
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>You've at least tried booting from the USB floppy, right? Some motherboards
>do support it. The BIOS should give some indication that's an option.
>
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>>I have a copy of the floppy and have tried to burn it on a
>>CD-RW, but it doesn't seem to do the trick. I assume it has something to
>>do with the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files, but what needs to be
>>changed, I am unsure of.
>>
>>The other (same?) problem is that while there is an internal CD drive in
>>the Celvin, a ZipCD USB burner is also connected. At boot up time from
>>the ME boot "floppy" CD, only the one drive is available as USB isn't
>>implemented in the boot "floppy" as far as I can tell. That means that
>>not only do I have to be able to boot the "floppy" CD from D:, but also
>>access the ME Install CD from the same drive.
>>
>>Any ideas, advice? I have never tried something like this before and
>>have never tried to edit a AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS file. Is there
>>anyone on the list that can maybe walk me through this?
>>
>>
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>I've never used WinME but isn't its install CD bootable? It's not *that*
>old. That would take care of the problem right there.
>
>What are you using to burn the bootable CD you're trying to make? Roxio's
>Easy CD Creator has a "bootable CD" option which uses a bootable floppy you
>provide to make a binary image of that floppy, leaving the rest of the CD-R
>free for WinME. There's no need for any files to be edited on the floppy,
>just use a normal boot floppy with CD-ROM support. If the WinME cd is like a
>Win98 CD, you just need the contents of the "WinME" folder on the CD to do
>an install (naturally on a Win98 CD the folder is called "Win98").
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