How to create a bootable CD/DVD

STEP 1 - Prepare something bootable

To begin, you need some kind of bootable medium, preferably a floppy disk

If you have a floppy disk drive:
Create a bootable floppy, for instance by using
Start->Programs->Snapshot->Create Recover Floppy
Use A: as bootable bootable medium below

If you have no disk drive - Method A:
Method 1: create a small partition, then restore networkbootdiskette.sna (installed during setup) to this partition.
You can customize this partition at will (change autoexec.bat etc.).
Use this partition as bootable medium below.

If you have no disk drive - Method B:
Create a bootable (uncompressed) image of a floppy.
Using the windows commandline, expand networkbootdiskette.sna with the (undocumented) command

c:\programs\snapshot> snapshot networkbootdiskette.sna bootdisk.img -X

Use bootdisk.img as bootable medium below.

STEP 2 - Burn disk, using NERO

start Nero
(create a new project)
[Close Wizard] if necessary, we need the tabbed view
in the top left, select CD or DVD
in the lower left, scroll down to CD-ROM [boot] or DVD-ROM [boot]
click the [boot] tab
select (*) bootable logical drive or (*) image file, depending on the boot medium from above
enable expert settings
make sure ' kind of emulation' is set to Floppy Emulation 1,44 MB
click [NEW]
add image files to the CD/DVD; they will be visible on drive W: when booted from CD
burn
done

STEP 3 - reboot and test if CD boots

Better now then in an emergency ;)

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