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Using Easy CD Creator to Make a Bootable
CD
Additional
System Requirements
A bootable CD is a disc that contains a bootable image
- an ISO 9660 file that is an exact representation of
a floppy or hard drive from which you can boot your
system. Easy CD Creator implements the El Torito standard
which was developed by Phoenix Technologies and IBM
and specifies a bootable CD-ROM format.
To make a bootable CD work in your system, your system's
motherboard or SCSI card BIOS must support booting a
CD from a CD-ROM drive. If the BIOS does support this
feature, you need to enable it in the BIOS.
How
to Make a Bootable CD
To make a bootable CD, follow these steps:
Insert the source bootable floppy diskette into
your floppy drive. Select CD Layout Properties from the File
menu. Click the Data Settings tab. Select the ISO 9660 File System option. Select Bootable and click OK. Follow the steps in How to
Make a Data CD.
When Easy CD Creator begins writing files and folders
to your blank CD, two files are written to the root
directory of your CD layout: bootcat.cin and
bootimg.bim.
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Tips
for Making a Bootable CD
You create a bootable CD the same way as you create
a bootable floppy diskette for your working environment.
Easy CD Creator reads boot information from a floppy
diskette and writes that information to a bootimg.bin
file on the CD. Easy CD Creator supports the following
floppy diskette formats:
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