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Chris:

--- Quote from: jbox on January 31, 2007, 03:50:02 am ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on January 31, 2007, 03:14:01 am ---Actually, I usually just create a bootable CD from a floppy. Works much better.

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Damn, I'd love to know how you make a CD out of a floppy?   :laugh2:

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If you've never done it, the process of creating a bootable CD requires a bootable floppy to pull the boot files from.

jbox:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 31, 2007, 03:03:49 pm ---He means physically changing a floppy to a CD.

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Apparently the "wetting yourself laughing" smiley is no longer able to convey the "this was a stupid pun" subtext to the masses.  ???

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Chris on January 31, 2007, 10:43:33 pm ---If you've never done it, the process of creating a bootable CD requires a bootable floppy to pull the boot files from.

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Or the image of a bootable floppy.  It can actually be done a number of ways but the burning app will need someplace to pull the boot files from because they aren't licensed to come in the burning app itself.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 01, 2007, 12:17:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: Chris on January 31, 2007, 10:43:33 pm ---If you've never done it, the process of creating a bootable CD requires a bootable floppy to pull the boot files from.

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Or the image of a bootable floppy.  It can actually be done a number of ways but the burning app will need someplace to pull the boot files from because they aren't licensed to come in the burning app itself.

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I forgot which software it was, but it came with a free version of DOS (not from M$) to create bootable disks yourself.

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