Hi CHARLES! :-)

 CA> My assumption is based on the sudden appearance of a dosbox
 CA> when I insert the KNOPPIX CD into a running W2K system. I may
 CA> be mistaken but it seems one of the autoboot systems for CDs is
 CA> based on DOS to some degree? 
The CD may be mastered with autorun information that tries to do something
under Windows, yeah, but the CD boot process doesn't need any DOS. Trust
me, I've coded all that stuff for myself recently.

Ciao
Pascal

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