the burning question [Archive]

pimpinaman

January 31st, 2006, 08:22 PM

I need a little insight on how to solve a problem...lets say you have some files that came to you in a .zip format. Unzipping no problem with winrar or 7-zip. Now these files need to go on a CD that would be bootable, say an operating system for example... when the files are burned from the extracted .zip, the resulting CD is not bootable.....much frustation later I'm here....

can some of the good folks give me some pointers here?

DigitalJunkie

February 1st, 2006, 12:22 AM

I use WinISO to create bootable CD.

First, use the Notepad to create AutoRun.ini text file. Then use WinISO to create bootable CD with other files you want on the CD. Done!

pimpinaman

February 1st, 2006, 05:31 AM

Thanks DJ :) What needs to be in the AutoRun.ini file?

DigitalJunkie

February 1st, 2006, 03:41 PM

Sorry, the file to be created should be AutoRun.inf not AutoRun.ini.

For example, you want to create a bootable CD to install a game, you would create a text file AUTORUN.INF with lines like:

[autorun]
OPEN=Setup.exe
ICON=Game.ico

On the CD, it should includes all other files needed by Setup.exe to install your game!

pimpinaman

February 8th, 2006, 08:20 PM

ok buy me a clue here....a link or two to some guides on a bootable xp cd?

DwarfBaby

February 8th, 2006, 09:05 PM

Ok

Not to sound like a dick or something but Google is your friend. No actually Google is "God". Omnipresent, Omniscient, yadah, yadah.

Simply type "bootable xp cd" and you will receive countless pages of advice and tutorials that far out way the value of this forum (No offence to the Zeropaid loyalist as they are usually very helpful)

If you don't feel like trusting "God" then here is a link that "God" gave me when typing those exact words.
http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

I'm sure there are easier ways but I'm not going to List 48,000 web sites when Google will do that if you just type in those words.

kokanezub

February 9th, 2006, 03:54 AM

just go to setup menu wen booting and select boot from cd if its an os

Krell

February 9th, 2006, 05:43 AM

just go to setup menu wen booting and select boot from cd if its an os

Actually brings up a valid point!

Even if you DO have a bootable CD, and you do not set your BIOS to boot from the CD or DVD drive before the hard drive, it's not going to try.

Make sure you are set to boot from that drive and try again.

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pimpinaman

February 10th, 2006, 05:51 AM

thanks for the advice Dwarfbaby. The site you listed was down when I was posting. Appreciate the thoughts from Krell regarding the bios settings, all my systems are set to boot from CD 1st :) the OS didn't apprear to be in a bootable format kokanezub....

forkart

February 28th, 2006, 07:01 PM

I need a little insight on how to solve a problem...lets say you have some files that came to you in a .zip format. Unzipping no problem with winrar or 7-zip. Now these files need to go on a CD that would be bootable, say an operating system for example... when the files are burned from the extracted .zip, the resulting CD is not bootable.....much frustation later I'm here....

can some of the good folks give me some pointers here?

You can use magiciso to create iso image (http://www.magiciso.com/). and add autorun.ini into the iso image.

http://www.magiciso.com/