Bootable CD ROM Bigger Than 2.88MB?

[Kenneth Loafman]

Jonathan Hirschman wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the explanation.  Seems I'm not the only one that's had this 
misunderstanding.  A fair number of articles out there explain in great 
detail how to remove unneeded files so the ROM image will fit.  That's 
where I got the idea that it was limited to the floppy size.

...Ken