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Steve McCrystal  wrote:

> Anyway, this started me thinking about a backup, which I hadn't done for 
> too long. I took care of that.  That, of course, started me thinking 
> about how I would restore the backup should the drive die. I decided to 
> make a bootable CD, since media is now dirt cheap.

What did you use to make the backup. Or what sort of environment would
you need to restore it?

> I have the latest revision of Bootable, and a couple of earlier released 
> under different names but from the same author.   To date I have burned 
> a CD-RW test CD about 20 times, and 4 plain CD-R disks, and not a one of 
> them will actually boot my machine. 

Strange. I've used Bootable and while I can't say it was terribly easy
to get set up, I did manage to produce a bootable CD using it, complete
with PM environment and a few extras.

> Soooooooo, my question is, has anyone actually created a bootable CD 
> using Bootable?  What about some other means of creating one?   I'd sure 
> appreciate any advice anyone can offer!

As above, yes, I've used it to create bootable CDs. I did have problems
with Doug Bisset's addon, and ended up doing most of it in stages
myself. Always mean to get back and find out what I did wrong using
Doug's extra setup options, but haven't got there yet.

I did end up having to do a bit of tweaking to the batch file to burn
the cd after using MKISOFS to create the ISO in the first place.

Another alternative, though its not really intended for the same
purpose is UpdCD (http://www.updcd.tk/). I've used it to create
bootable install CDs for both Wapr 4 and eCS 1.1. I've also used those
bootable CDs as a text mode rescue system on ocasion (I add extra tools
such as editors and filemanagers, plus, of course, Dfsee when creating
the CD). UpdCD takes a bit of setting up (if only because of the number
of bits you have to collect) but works pretty well. And does have the
ability to create an updated install CD for most variants of OS/2.

paul.

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