Mailing List Archive: Bootable CD for Windows

Bootable CD for Windows

Oct 16, 2004, 9:29 PM

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I have a bootable CD for Windows XP but I need to create another CD with
different stuff on it. I've checked the archives, jeeves, etc. and found
a script in the Gentoo mail list which is supposed to extract a boot
image from an El Torito. However, when I run it it and redirect it's
output to a file I get a file that is 8192 bytes long and xcdroast
complains it's the wrong size for a boot image.

How do I get the boot image off this CD so I can use it in xcdroast?

Thanks.

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Re: Bootable CD for Windows [ In reply to ]

aaron at technosailor

Oct 16, 2004, 5:59 PM

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On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:29, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> I have a bootable CD for Windows XP but I need to create another CD with
> different stuff on it. I've checked the archives, jeeves, etc. and found
> a script in the Gentoo mail list which is supposed to extract a boot
> image from an El Torito. However, when I run it it and redirect it's
> output to a file I get a file that is 8192 bytes long and xcdroast
> complains it's the wrong size for a boot image.
>
> How do I get the boot image off this CD so I can use it in xcdroast?
>
> Thanks.

I don't know of an answer to your specific question, but you might look at a
utility like the 911 CD. http://www.911cd.net

It will create a bootable iso image with whatever Flavor of Windows you own
and need that xcdroast should be able to burn.

Aaron

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Re: Bootable CD for Windows [ In reply to ]

brettholcomb at charter

Oct 16, 2004, 10:17 PM

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I found that if I use no emulation boot xcdroast doesn't complain about
the size but the CD still didn't boot.

I'll look at that site.

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Aaron wrote:

> On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:29, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> I have a bootable CD for Windows XP but I need to create another CD
>> with different stuff on it. I've checked the archives, jeeves, etc.
>
> I don't know of an answer to your specific question, but you might look at a
> utility like the 911 CD. http://www.911cd.net
>
> It will create a bootable iso image with whatever Flavor of Windows you own
> and need that xcdroast should be able to burn.
>
> Aaron
>
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>

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Re: Bootable CD for Windows [ In reply to ]

alinmd at gmail

Oct 19, 2004, 10:42 AM

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The WinXP CD boot sector is not emulated and has exactly 2048 bytes. I
have written a little C app. that extracts ONLY the non-emulated boot
sectors out from ISOFSs (not the floppy emulations - didn't have time
to finnish it :D). Of course, I can send you the 2048 bytes bootsector
itself to spare time ;)

Alin.

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:17:47 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb
<brettholcomb@charter.net> wrote:
> I found that if I use no emulation boot xcdroast doesn't complain about
> the size but the CD still didn't boot.
>
> I'll look at that site.
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Aaron wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:29, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> >> I have a bootable CD for Windows XP but I need to create another CD
> >> with different stuff on it. I've checked the archives, jeeves, etc.
> >
> > I don't know of an answer to your specific question, but you might look at a
> > utility like the 911 CD. http://www.911cd.net
> >
> > It will create a bootable iso image with whatever Flavor of Windows you own
> > and need that xcdroast should be able to burn.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> > --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
>
> --
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Re: Bootable CD for Windows [ In reply to ]

brettholcomb at charter

Oct 19, 2004, 5:10 PM

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Yes, I'd love to have it. I ran a perl script I found in the forum and it
extracted something!

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Alin Dobre wrote:

> The WinXP CD boot sector is not emulated and has exactly 2048 bytes. I
> have written a little C app. that extracts ONLY the non-emulated boot
> sectors out from ISOFSs (not the floppy emulations - didn't have time
> to finnish it :D). Of course, I can send you the 2048 bytes bootsector
> itself to spare time ;)
>
> Alin.
>
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:17:47 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb
> <brettholcomb@charter.net> wrote:
>> I found that if I use no emulation boot xcdroast doesn't complain about
>> the size but the CD still didn't boot.
>>
>> I'll look at that site.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Aaron wrote:
>>
>>> On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:29, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>>>> I have a bootable CD for Windows XP but I need to create another CD
>>>> with different stuff on it. I've checked the archives, jeeves, etc.
>>>
>>> I don't know of an answer to your specific question, but you might look at a
>>> utility like the 911 CD. http://www.911cd.net
>>>
>>> It will create a bootable iso image with whatever Flavor of Windows you own
>>> and need that xcdroast should be able to burn.
>>>
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>> --
>>> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>>
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Re: Bootable CD for Windows [ In reply to ]

alinmd at gmail

Oct 20, 2004, 12:18 AM

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You can download my boot extractor from:
http://blue1der.go.ro/isoeltorito/isoeltorito.tar.gz
(uncompress and run make; give the isofile as parameter or the cdrom
device; after running it there will be 2 dumped files: boot.bin and
boot.cat)
and the WinXP boot image from:
http://blue1der.go.ro/bootimg/boot1os.bin

Alin.

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:10:46 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb
<brettholcomb@charter.net> wrote:
> Yes, I'd love to have it. I ran a perl script I found in the forum and it
> extracted something!
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Alin Dobre wrote:
>
> > The WinXP CD boot sector is not emulated and has exactly 2048 bytes. I
> > have written a little C app. that extracts ONLY the non-emulated boot
> > sectors out from ISOFSs (not the floppy emulations - didn't have time
> > to finnish it :D). Of course, I can send you the 2048 bytes bootsector
> > itself to spare time ;)
> >
> > Alin.
> >
> > On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:17:47 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb
> > <brettholcomb@charter.net> wrote:
> >> I found that if I use no emulation boot xcdroast doesn't complain about
> >> the size but the CD still didn't boot.
> >>
> >> I'll look at that site.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Aaron wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:29, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> >>>> I have a bootable CD for Windows XP but I need to create another CD
> >>>> with different stuff on it. I've checked the archives, jeeves, etc.
> >>>
> >>> I don't know of an answer to your specific question, but you might look at a
> >>> utility like the 911 CD. http://www.911cd.net
> >>>
> >>> It will create a bootable iso image with whatever Flavor of Windows you own
> >>> and need that xcdroast should be able to burn.
> >>>
> >>> Aaron
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
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> >>
> >>
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> >>
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Re: Re: Bootable CD for Windows [ In reply to ]

brettholcomb at charter

Oct 20, 2004, 4:44 AM

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Thank you. I'll download it and try it. I used the perl script and it gave me a huge file. I did look at bcd from Bart's image extractor but all that is for Windows - although he does have a Win2K boot in there.

>
> From: Alin Dobre <alinmd@gmail.com>
> Date: 2004/10/20 Wed AM 07:18:00 GMT
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bootable CD for Windows
>
> You can download my boot extractor from:
> http://blue1der.go.ro/isoeltorito/isoeltorito.tar.gz
> (uncompress and run make; give the isofile as parameter or the cdrom
> device; after running it there will be 2 dumped files: boot.bin and
> boot.cat)
> and the WinXP boot image from:
> http://blue1der.go.ro/bootimg/boot1os.bin
>
> Alin.
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:10:46 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb
> <brettholcomb@charter.net> wrote:
> > Yes, I'd love to have it. I ran a perl script I found in the forum and it
> > extracted something!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Alin Dobre wrote:
> >
> > > The WinXP CD boot sector is not emulated and has exactly 2048 bytes. I
> > > have written a little C app. that extracts ONLY the non-emulated boot
> > > sectors out from ISOFSs (not the floppy emulations - didn't have time
> > > to finnish it :D). Of course, I can send you the 2048 bytes bootsector
> > > itself to spare time ;)
> > >
> > > Alin.
> > >
> > > On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:17:47 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb
> > > <brettholcomb@charter.net> wrote:
> > >> I found that if I use no emulation boot xcdroast doesn't complain about
> > >> the size but the CD still didn't boot.
> > >>
> > >> I'll look at that site.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Aaron wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:29, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > >>>> I have a bootable CD for Windows XP but I need to create another CD
> > >>>> with different stuff on it. I've checked the archives, jeeves, etc.
> > >>>
> > >>> I don't know of an answer to your specific question, but you might look at a
> > >>> utility like the 911 CD. http://www.911cd.net
> > >>>
> > >>> It will create a bootable iso image with whatever Flavor of Windows you own
> > >>> and need that xcdroast should be able to burn.
> > >>>
> > >>> Aaron
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Brett I. Holcomb
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > > --
> >
> >
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> > >
> >
> > --
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> >
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Re: Bootable CD for Windows [ In reply to ]

brettholcomb at charter

Oct 20, 2004, 6:11 PM

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Thank you. I have it.

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Alin Dobre wrote:

> You can download my boot extractor from:
> http://blue1der.go.ro/isoeltorito/isoeltorito.tar.gz
> (uncompress and run make; give the isofile as parameter or the cdrom
> device; after running it there will be 2 dumped files: boot.bin and
> boot.cat)
> and the WinXP boot image from:
> http://blue1der.go.ro/bootimg/boot1os.bin
>
> Alin.
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 20:10:46 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb
> <brettholcomb@charter.net> wrote:
>> Yes, I'd love to have it. I ran a perl script I found in the forum and it
>> extracted something!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Alin Dobre wrote:
>>
>>> The WinXP CD boot sector is not emulated and has exactly 2048 bytes. I
>>> have written a little C app. that extracts ONLY the non-emulated boot
>>> sectors out from ISOFSs (not the floppy emulations - didn't have time
>>> to finnish it :D). Of course, I can send you the 2048 bytes bootsector
>>> itself to spare time ;)
>>>
>>> Alin.
>>>
>>> On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:17:47 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb
>>> <brettholcomb@charter.net> wrote:
>>>> I found that if I use no emulation boot xcdroast doesn't complain about
>>>> the size but the CD still didn't boot.
>>>>
>>>> I'll look at that site.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Aaron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday 16 October 2004 21:29, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>>>>>> I have a bootable CD for Windows XP but I need to create another CD
>>>>>> with different stuff on it. I've checked the archives, jeeves, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know of an answer to your specific question, but you might look at a
>>>>> utility like the 911 CD. http://www.911cd.net
>>>>>
>>>>> It will create a bootable iso image with whatever Flavor of Windows you own
>>>>> and need that xcdroast should be able to burn.
>>>>>
>>>>> Aaron
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>>
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>>>
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