Gorlash Posted January 1, 2011 Posted January 1, 2011 I'm trying to create a bootable Win98SE iso that I can load into VirtualBox. The recommended way to do this is to merge the bootable Win98SE image with the contents of the Win98SE install CD. However, I can't figure out how to do this?? My best guess was to select Create Image File from files/folders, add my bootable iso first, then add the contents of the other CDROM. I *did* get an iso from this, but it was a non-bootable iso with the input bootable iso sitting there in the root directory. If I extract that bootable iso to a disk, though, I'll lose the boot sectors at the beginning. How do I solve this problem??
LIGHTNING UK! Posted January 2, 2011 Posted January 2, 2011 Your post makes it sound like you're trying to merge two of the same thing?! How is the 'Win98SE' image any different from the 'Win98SE' install CD? At no point should you be adding a disc image in Build mode - unless it's just the little 'bootable' bit and you're specifying that image on the 'Bootable Disc' tab. If you have a bootable image (a proper disc image), why can't you just burn it in Write mode? If you want the bootable bit from the image, mount it in a virtual drive and use the 'Extract' feature on the 'Bootable Disc' tab. Then extract + merge the contents of the image and install CD into a single folder or whatever. Add that folder as the source and specify your extracted boot image (or let the program do it for you after the extraction).
Gorlash Posted January 2, 2011 Author Posted January 2, 2011 I guess my OP wasn't quite clear enough; what I'm trying to merge are two ISOs; one is just a Win98SE boot disk, the other is the actual Win98SE installation CD. In essence, I'm trying to create a bootable Win98SE CD. I need to do more than just set the "bootable" bit, I need to have an MSDOS/Win98SE bootable disk, with CDROM drivers, etc. All that is what the first ISO has on it. Admittedly, I shouldn't have to bother with this at all, but I can't get VirtualBox to recognize both the boot CD and the install CD at the same time. However, *that* is not a topic for this forum!! Your post makes it sound like you're trying to merge two of the same thing?! How is the 'Win98SE' image any different from the 'Win98SE' install CD? At no point should you be adding a disc image in Build mode - unless it's just the little 'bootable' bit and you're specifying that image on the 'Bootable Disc' tab. If you have a bootable image (a proper disc image), why can't you just burn it in Write mode? If you want the bootable bit from the image, mount it in a virtual drive and use the 'Extract' feature on the 'Bootable Disc' tab. Then extract + merge the contents of the image and install CD into a single folder or whatever. Add that folder as the source and specify your extracted boot image (or let the program do it for you after the extraction).
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