How to create a bootable CD/DVD

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STEP 1 - prepare a 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, restore networkbootdisk.sna (installed during setup) to this partition
You can customize (change autoexec.bat etc.) this partition at will.
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 networkbootdisk.sna with the (undocumented) command

       c:\programs\snapshot> snapshot networkbootdisk.sna bootdisk.img

Use bootdisk.img as bootable medium below.

STEP 2 - burn disk, using NERO

STEP 3 - reboot and test if CD boots

better now then when you are in emergency mode ;)

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