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Original Poster Posted 2005-11-25 17:49 ·  中国 浙江 金华 义乌市 电信
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I made a 25M DOS boot image floppy and used it to make a boot CD.
The computer boots successfully from this CD, but now there is one problem:

After booting, the files in the image floppy are all on drive C:, that is, C: is used as the virtual floppy drive, not A:.
How should I handle the boot CD to change it to drive A:?

Thanks
Floor 2 Posted 2005-11-25 17:57 ·  中国 浙江 金华 义乌市 电信
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Addition:
How can I get the drive letter of the virtual drive in autoexec.bat.
Like using findcd。exe to get the drive letter of the CD-ROM.
Floor 3 Posted 2005-11-25 22:27 ·  中国 河南 南阳 联通
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The bootable CD-ROM standard specifies that floppy disk images can only have three formats: 1.2M, 1.44M, 2.88M. So, it is impossible to make a 25M floppy boot image that conforms to the bootable CD-ROM standard.

I guess your 25M boot image has already been automatically converted by your ISO-making software into a bootable hard disk image, and that is why you are seeing this result.

To treat drive C: as drive A:, you can do it by using emulation. But obviously what you want is not emulation, but to have the image treated as drive A: when booting from the CD-ROM. That cannot be done, or rather, it cannot be done through the simple CD-ROM standard. Maybe some software can implement more functions on top of the standard, such as allowing large floppy image booting, but that is a more advanced topic. I have never dealt with it myself, so let's see whether anyone else replies to you.
Floor 4 Posted 2005-11-26 11:59 ·  中国 浙江 金华 义乌市 电信
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Is there any expert who can solve this?
Floor 5 Posted 2005-11-26 17:26 ·  中国 安徽 宿州 泗县 电信
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Originally posted by tinybit at 2005-11-25 10:27 PM:
The bootable CD-ROM standard specifies that floppy disk images can only have three formats: 1.2M, 1.44M, 2.88M. It is impossible〠...

But the Red Leaf disc still has a boot disk image of more than 8M.
Floor 6 Posted 2005-11-27 10:34 ·  中国 浙江 金华 东阳市 电信
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Where is the download link for the Red Leaf disc? Please give me a link address, okay? Thanks
Floor 7 Posted 2005-11-27 15:49 ·  中国 湖南 永州 电信
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What post #3 said is right, the boot disk cannot be larger than 2.88M.
After making it, you need to handle the boot disk commands with a batch file, and when burning you can add tools to the CD.
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