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Okay, so possible solutions by the numbers,
from easiest
to less easy:
- If you want the
'easiest' solution--do whatever it takes to install a floppy disk drive
on your system. Most programs designed to make bootable floppies and/or
bootable CD/DVD are geared towards having a floppy drive
present.
- With Ghost 2003, it has a
built-in routine that will create a bootable CD/DVD when you create and
save an image to optical media directly from within the Ghost program.
This functionality works from both the Windows interface for Ghost, as
well as the Ghost's DOS program (but for the DOS Ghost Interface--you
have to have a floppy drive to boot from in order to use the DOS Ghost
Interface to create bootable optical media). If Ghost recognizes your
optical writer, Ghost has the ability to create bootable optical media
with the Ghost program on it.
I believe this feature has
made most users happy enough, and you do not see nearly as many users
asking how to create bootable CD/DVD's any longer.
But here's the downside to
this option:
- as mentioned
earlier, Ghost does not include Mouse support on the bootable CD/DVD
it creates (a minor, but irritating point),
- you can only use
Ghost's built-in drivers and capabilities--so for instance, if your
USB external hard drive is not supported, you're out of luck,
- if you wanted to create a
customized boot sequence that automats some of Ghost's abilities, you
can not do this with Ghost's built-in bootable CD/DVD disk
routine.
- Find a second
computer system with a floppy drive and optical writer on it. Create the
desired boot floppies, and then use a CD/DVD burning program, like Nero
or Roxio, that can use these floppies to burn them to optical media, and
make CD/DVD's bootable. But this gets complicated if this second
computer system does not have Ghost 2003 on it already, and you're
asking to use someone else's system!
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So, if the above
solutions have not solved your needs, then there is this guide! Read
on--even if you have a floppy drive, I think you will find some
interesting information that will apply to other aspects of creating
bootable CD/DVD's.
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