Dual Layer Multi-Boot DVD

[iainstott]

Hi really quick question. I am quite a newbie @ all of this, but is it possible to create a Multi-Boot DVD on A Dual Layer 8.5Gb media????

Many Thanks Iain

[prathapml]

Hi Iain, yes you can use any media, the procedure is all the same.

[iainstott]

Thank you very much. Your Post on all topics have been very very helpfull to me

[cdob]

@iainstott

What do you include to your Multi-Boot DVD?

Sort windows textmode boot files below 4 GB.

XP SP2 setupldr.bin access first 4 GB only.

[iainstott]

Hi, I have included

4 Versions Of NT

3 Versions Of 2000

5 Versions Of XP

4 Vesions Of 2003

My Original ISO was over 7gb untill i remembered that CDImage can optomize the files.

[cdob]

My Original ISO was over 7gb untill i remembered that CDImage can optomize the files.

What's your ISO filesize now?

I guess filesize is below 4 gb now, ignore previous message.

[iainstott]

Tis 4.56Gb, quite lucky it wasnt a litlle biger.

[ToasterMax]

What is CDImage and what can it do? We have an image that we use to clone new workstations that has grown so large that it needs to be done only over the network since it wont fit on a standard dvd. Can this app help us? its sort of a complicted image though that involves two partitions to the receipient hard drive.

[phkninja]

Toaster - cdimage is a tool made by MS to create ISO images. It is used for creating the cd/dvd images of the unattanded windows files.

[ToasterMax]

so its made my M$? really? where can i get it?

[Vel Straty]

You can get it inside the package of XPCREATE. Look inside this forum if you don't know about XPCREATE. XPCREATE is quite useful too!

[iainstott]

Is XPCreate the same type of tool as nLite???

[prathapml]

To be straight, NO XPcreate is not the same type as nLite.

Atleast, not from birth - though today, both meet halfway, with the difference being that nLite is in active development with a nice UI, while XPcreate has been dormant for long.

XPcreate was made to put together all updates & merge it into a Windows XP/2000 disc.

nLite was made to strip out all the junk, from 2k/XP/2k3.

Toaster:

Most probably, cdImage is not of much help to you. The main speciality about CDimage is that it can optimize files while making an ISO disc-image. You probably did not mean ISO images, & probably not many of your identical files are repeated. (what is "optimizing"? Read the topic at this LINK)