On Feb 13, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
On 13 February 2014 14:07, Joost van de Griek
<gyorpb at gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed. And if the Windows CD contains a boot
floppy image (as many
do), you can point most VM's directly to that image and they will boot
from it.
That I must admit I did not know, but it figures, since Win9x has an
option to format a bootable diskette... so there being a ready-rolled
image in there somewhere would make sense.
I am not sure I am ever going to get to /use/ this knowledge, but
thanks for teaching me something interesting! :?)
I think what Joost was talking about was the usual method of making a
bootable CD on PCs, which involves embedding a bootable floppy image
in the first part of the CD (the "El Torito" spec). That wasn't quite
standard when Win95 was released (I think it existed, but no one was
really using it yet), but it was somewhat common in 1998.
In theory, El Torito allows for more methods than just embedding a
boot floppy image, but I can't recall having ever seen anything else
done (I haven't looked very closely in a long time, though).
As far as I know, the Win9x "make a boot floppy" is essentially just
a "format /s".
- Dave