Hi Lightning. Yes, I know it would be MUCH simpler to use a flash drive, (asus has a utility especially for that) but, no, I don't have one. My wife and I are on a Very tight budget and I just haven't sprung for one yet. Besides, simpler or no, something about using a fifteen to twenty dollar piece of hardware to do the same job I should be able to do with a thirty cent cd just doesn't seem right to me (unless I already had one).
From your comment about optical disks being less than ideally suited for this sort of thing, I'm guessing there isn't a simple answer to my problem...
I was wondering, I'll need to reinstall daemon tools, but if I mount the freedos image (it will mount won't it?), copy it to a file, add my bios, etc. then burn it with include system and hidden files selected? It wouldn't work, would it, because the whole thing with the boot images is that they fool the bios into thinking it's loading a diskette. Hmmm...any other ideas, or should I just wait until I can get a flash drive?