Bruce,

On a Win98 or Win95 install CD, buried, there is a directory called ???EBD
( I forget the exact name, but if you search a Win9x CD for it, you'll find
it )

anyway, run FAT32EBD.EXE, and it will make a bootable floppy, and will
install drivers for 99% of CD's out there as well as FORMAT, FDISK, etc...
for FAT32.

hth,

Travis Howerton
Programmer/Analyst
Pharmacy Computer Services, Inc.
541.476.3139 x233
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Toback" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 4:36 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Making Boot Floppies for Win95/Win98


> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know how to make a boot floppy from the Win95 or Win98 CD
> included with the Microsoft Developer Network subscription? The developer
> versions of these CDs aren't bootable because they contain several
> versions of each OS. All the information I  have says that I should "boot
> into DOS", but I don't have any DOS diskettes with CD-ROM drivers on
> them.
>
> The CDs include a BOOT directory containing all the files that would be
> necessary to create a boot diskette (I presume), including MSDOS.SYS and
> IO.SYS. However, I can't just copy the files to a floppy because the boot
> sector needs to be updated with the addresses of the system files.
>
> I vaguely remember some kind of option in FORMAT that will take care of
> doing this, but I can't find it, and I can't find anything on Microsoft's
> web site (not that I'd expect to find this kind of needle in that
> enormous haystack). Does anyone have any advice?
>
> Thanks,
> -- Bruce
>
>
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