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skyteddy 
Group: Members
Posts: 2
Joined: Jun. 2007
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Posted on: Jun. 30 2007,07:47 |
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Hello,
I want to create one bootable CD from 6 Windows XP Boot-Disks. I read a lot of threads and I try many things, but nothing works. :-(
The 6 XP-floppys works. If I boot the first one, then I will be asked for the second, for the third ... until the recovery console is running.
So I'm sure the floppys are working. :-)
What I have done, try 1:
- First I create the diskette-image from the first floppy and save it as diskette1.img
- with UltraIso: New -> Bootable CD -> diskette1.img
- CTRL-S to save ISO as diskette1.iso
- F7 -> burn to CD
- the CD boots and minutes later I will be asked for the second diskette. Normally :-)
To see, what is the contents of the diskette1.img I use UltraISO:
- Open -> diskette1.img
and I see 6 files:
DISK101
BIOSINFO.INF
BOOTFONT.BIN
NTDETECT.COM
SETUPLDR.BIN
TXTSETUP.SI_
Up to know everything is clear
Now I try to expand the floppy image to the size of 6 floppys (1.44 x 6 = 8,64):
- Start easyboot
- Tools -> Create new Floppy Image
Seed: diskette1.img
Image Size: 8640
Output Image File: diskette1_expanded_to_8640.img
It seams to work, but if I open the new file "diskette1_expanded_to_8640.img" with UltraISO it is empty. :-(
Anyway, I try to burn it like my succeeded try 1 above, but the CD doesn't boot.
Ok, I reopened the image "diskette1_expanded_to_8640.img" again and put all the content of the 6 floppy with drag and drop into the image
and save it as "diskette1_expanded_to_8640_with_content.img"
But how can I make this img bootable? I tried many things but nothing works.
For example in the post nr4 from the tread http://forum.ezbsystems.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=2;t=1240 :
| Solution:
| 1) Download http://dw.ezbsys.net/ezboot.zip , unpack it to c:\ , you will get a folder as c:\ezboot
| 2) Copy your IMG file to c:\ezboot, rename it as bootdisk.img
| 3) Start UltraISO, choose 'New'->'Bootable CD/DVD image', specify c:\ezboot\loader.bin as boot file
| 4) Add folder c:\ezboot to the image area (All files in this folder will be added by default)
| 5) Save to an ISO and burn
Ok my try:
- I download the file and extract it to c:\ezboot
- copy my "diskette1_expanded_to_8640_with_content.img" to c:\ezboot and rename it to bootdisk.img
- UltraISO -> new -> bootable CD -> c:\ezboot\loader.bin
- Actions -> Add directory ... -> c:\ezboot
=> exactly 3 files (bootdisk.ezb, bootdisk.img, loader.bin) and the folder "ezboot" will be added)
- Save to ISO "my_try1.iso" and born and doesn't work :-(
I don't understand how it should work that the content of the bootdisk.img are will be booted
Next try:
- I load the diskette1.img
- Bootable -> Save Boot File ... -> "diskette1-img-bootfile.bsf"
- I load then "diskette1_expanded_to_8640_with_content.img"
- Bootable -> Load Boot File -> "diskette1-img-bootfile.bsf"
- Save
- new -> bootable CD -> "diskette1_expanded_to_8640_with_content.img
- Ctrl-S to save as "my_try2.sio" and burn and doesn't work :-(
I tried also the extracting bootfile from the working diskete1.iso, but it doesn't work too
What is my mistake? What I have to do to make the expanded floppy-image with the contents of all 6 floppys bootable?
many thanks in advance
skyteddy
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xoben
Group: Super Administrators
Posts: 2200
Joined: Nov. 2004
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Posted on: Jun. 30 2007,23:04 |
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Tips:
1) The first step is creating a large size image which keeps boot sector of the original floppy #1. The newly created image should be empty.
2) All files and folders of the 6 floppy images should be extracted to a temp folder first, then add tem to the newly created empty large image
3) The large image is not a normal 1.2M/1.44M/2.88M floppy image, so it cannot be used as boot image file directly.
4) In general, you can use 'run xxx.img' as command with EasyBoot, but NOT ALL SYSTEMS work on large image. It is confirmed that setup disks of Windows XP CANNOT work this way.
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skyteddy
Group: Members
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Joined: Jun. 2007
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Posted on: Jul. 02 2007,13:13 |
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Hello,
thank you for your answer.
(xoben @ Jul. 01 2007,03:04)
QUOTE 1) The first step is creating a large size image which keeps boot sector of the original floppy #1. The newly created image should be empty.
As you can read in my posting, the new image was empty
QUOTE 2) All files and folders of the 6 floppy images should be extracted to a temp folder first, then add tem to the newly created empty large image
Done exacly if you describe
QUOTE 3) The large image is not a normal 1.2M/1.44M/2.88M floppy image, so it cannot be used as boot image file directly.
What does it mean? How can I make the new image bootable?
QUOTE 4) In general, you can use 'run xxx.img' as command with EasyBoot, but NOT ALL SYSTEMS work on large image. It is confirmed that setup disks of Windows XP CANNOT work this way.
:-( this seams to be the problem.
many thanks.
skyteddy
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