05-29-2004, 01:27 AM
Hi,
You can't make a startup disk with a CD.
Depends on what you mean. Most modern BIOS support boot from CD, so you can make a boot CD. Given the size of most bloatware and what you "need" to run a modern system, the boot floppies do things like make a virtual drive in memory to uncompress all the stuff they need. A boot CD can be ready to go. Indeed, some "real" OSes can actually run off a CD since non Microsquish programmers understand the difference between system files and temp files, a difference millionaires (not to mention billionaires) seem to find mentally challenging. Almost as challenging as the distinction between a system file and an application. But I digress. :)
--Pete
You can't make a startup disk with a CD.
Depends on what you mean. Most modern BIOS support boot from CD, so you can make a boot CD. Given the size of most bloatware and what you "need" to run a modern system, the boot floppies do things like make a virtual drive in memory to uncompress all the stuff they need. A boot CD can be ready to go. Indeed, some "real" OSes can actually run off a CD since non Microsquish programmers understand the difference between system files and temp files, a difference millionaires (not to mention billionaires) seem to find mentally challenging. Almost as challenging as the distinction between a system file and an application. But I digress. :)
--Pete
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