I hate to show to much windows knowledge... 1) Yes, you can turn a bootable floppy image into a bootable CD, but you can just burn the contents of the floppy to the CD to have it boot. 2) Windows 98 B(2) or 98 C will both format an entire hard drive even with Ext3 partitions. The Windows UBCD (a live windows disk) will format a single EXT3 partition, as will the XP install. But you are correct that you really delete the partition and then recreate it an empty partition to be formatted. -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Michael Sammartano Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 5:44 PM To: Main PLUG discussion list; eculbert@yahoo.com Subject: Re: bootdisks No, that won't work, the CDROM drivers are on the boot disk. Win98 was not designed to be bootable from the cd, although I do have a few that were made bootable. You can down load the disk contents online, just google it. Also windows will 'NOT' format over ext2 or ext3. You must use either a utility that erases the existing partition/s or use Linux to create the fat. Once this is done, win98 will do just fine. ---- eculbert wrote: > For that windows boot disk, can I burn it to a cdrom > since it is supposedly a bootable? In other words, > will that work as well as from a floppy as I have two > cd devices in this machine. > > Ed. > > Ed/ke7feg > > Did I mention, 2/23/07 the FCC dropped all cw (ADA Morse code) testing for any class of license as a ham? Just pass the written and "U's a ham"!! Many sites test online, but you have to go for the real test. $14 for as high as you can climb in one session. > > > ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Please visit http://www.iconnetworksolutions.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss