Writing Bootable CDs
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Nov 2002
Q.
We were importing our schema to our tree and received a -699 error. To fix this problem, TID #10066345 said to edit the NDSCOMM.SCH file and make a new CD. How do you make a new CD? What is the best way to make a CD bootable?
We tried with a 700MB R/W over half-a-dozen times with no bootable CD as the result. What is the Boot CD type? (Emulation 1.44 MB, 2.88 MD, HD or none?) What file system should we use--Joliet or ISO 9660? I am using Roxio Easy CD Creator Basic.
CD Troubles in Calcutta
A.
Dear CD Troubles: Make a CD with DOS boot materials having a CD-ROM driver plus mscdex or equivalent. That floppy image will end up as a .bin file which is booted and executed. It should mount the CD as if you did it from regular DOS on a hard disk. To experiment, get a re-writable disk to save money.
As a second option, make a boot floppy disk (with CD drivers), run the EZ-CD creator wizard and tell it you'd like a bootable CD. If you want to lift off Novell's bootable image, there's some excellent tools and documentation available at: http://www.nu2.nu. This will give you an exact DRDOS bootable image.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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