Bootable CD ROM Bigger Than 2.88MB?

[Jonathan Hirschman]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> I've ruled out bootdisk.com and a bunch of others due to this serious 
> limitation.  Somewhere there has to be a site that explains how to build 
> a bootable CD without limiting it to floppy size.  Or is there?  I just 
> need to be able to put about 7MB on the CD, some for the msdos system, 
> and the rest for the two exe's
Um, you don't need more than 2.88MB - in fact, you really shouldn't need 
more 1.44MB - for the bootable area.

Bootable CD's have two areas - the bootable area (size of the a floppy), 
and the data area (the rest of the CD). Get a bootable image that has 
drivers for your CD . Put the .exe in the data area, make the CD. Boot, 
cd to the data area (typically D:), and then run the .exe from there.

If you can't get a bootable image that has IDE/ATAPI drivers for the CD, 
then find a bootable image that has USB drivers (the one that comes with 
Nero 6.x does). Boot from the CD, run the .exe's from a usb key/drive.