Can anyone explain in simple terms...

[danielvh]

As topic.

My CD is finished but I now want to make it bootable. Can anyon explain to me in very simple terms how to do this?

Daniel

[DaveXP]

Yep download the empty ISO Image file from the unattended XP site on the frontpage and then opeun it in WinISO and Copy all your content in to the windows and click save.

[danielvh]

What's WinISO (where can I get it?)

[Corvette]

Won't work and I know it

[DaveXP]

WinISO is a program you can use to add files in to an ISO after it has ben created.

Download it for kazaa or something like that.

[Corvette]

You need a copy of a binary file called a boot sector

Burning instructions and the sector file are at this page for slipstreaming SP1. Just skip to the burning instructions and set the boot sector as the one in the zip.

[webmedic]

google for barts bootable cd. It's at http://nu2.nu His bootable cd works great. Well I should say there are instrutuctions there and files to do this it even burns it for you after building the iso.

[Corvette]

But what about the TackTech one?

[vcant]

i used ISO buster for my unnatended CD, it worked great...

you can find instructions at the end of "Sleapstreaming SP1" guide here

[Aaron]

The Microsoft CDImage app is also a nice tool. It will make a bootable ISO out of the XPCD directory you specify, using only one command line.

[jquintino]

yes is a nice tool

but i dont understand the commands

[Aaron]

I'll see if I can make a command for XP SP1

[webmedic]

well as for barts bootable cd I like it. It lets me work and tweak and not have to do all that other stuff when I'm ready to burn a cd I just goto the root directory and type bcd wxppro and it makes the iso, makes it bootable and then burns it. Also I like things a little more well I dont mind the command prompt and I use linux most of the time. I think this this last week testing installs is the most I've used windows in about 3 or 4 years.

[Aaron]

Place both CDIMAGE.exe and xpboot.img in the root of the C:\ drive, this command also assumes you have a folder called C:\XPCD\ containing your CD files.

C:\CDIMAGE.EXE -lWXPFPP_EN -bC:\xpboot.img -t08/26/2001,02:56:00 -d -h -n -m -o C:\XPCD C:\WXPFPP_EN.ISO

WXPFPP_EN.ISO will be created in the root of the C:\ Drive

-l = specifies a volume name, WXPFPP_EN is Windows XP Professional

-b = specify location of boot file

-t = set a time stamp on all files

-d = don't force lowercase filenames to uppercase

-h = include hidden files and directories

-n = allow long filenames (longer than DOS 8.3 names)

-m = ignore maximum image size of 681,984,000 bytes

-o = optimize storage by encoding duplicate files only once

Since Command prompt doesn't allow you to paste the command in, (its a hassle typing all that out) simply put it into a CreateISO.cmd batch and execute!

[webmedic]

command prompt does let you copy and past copy it here ten goto your command prompt and right click it will be pasted into place. I've been usoing it here all week for different things.

As for the rest bah barts bootable is easier to do.