bootdisks

[Bryan O'Neal]

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 at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
Michael Sammartano
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 5:44 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list; eculbert at 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 <eculbert at yahoo.com> 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.
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