Hot Topic: Multi-bootable N-in-1 Cd Howto

[khauyeung]

[12-20-2001] (Part 5)

Where are we?

Some people get lost, let us take some more time to digest what we have cooked so far. (I mean to take a quick look-back.)

In order to make a "Corporated Professional & Home Edition 2in1":

1. We put DevilsOwn as our first OS under the SourceRoot Directory of our hard-drive (under E:CORP2IN1_EN). Appeared under E:CORP2IN1_EN now are folders i386, DOCS, SUPPORT, VALUEADD ... and files ... all from the DevilsOwn.
2. We put Home Edition as our second OS under a directory WXHVOL_EN which is one level down from our SourceRoot (under E:CORP2IN1_ENWXHVOL_EN). Appeared under E:CORP2IN1_ENWXHVOL_EN now are folders i386, DOCS ... and files ... all from Home Edition.
3. But the Home Edition is from an Untouched Version. In order to turn it to a Corporated Home Edition, we have to replace in the i386 folder (E:CORP2IN1_ENWXHVOL_ENi386) with 8 Corporate Files. Where can we find the 8 files? The i386 folder of DevilsOwn (E:CORP2IN1_ENi386) contains them all. We therefore can simply copy them from E:CORP2IN1_ENi386 to E:CORP2IN1_ENWXHVOL_ENi386.
4. Now that we have both the Corporated Professional & Home Edition being put under the SourceRoot. We add 2 more files to the SourceRoot: BOOT.BIN which is a Boot-Image file; WIN511C from the Home Edition. (We need to have WIN51, WIN51IP and WIN51IC located in the root directory of our 2in1 CD to make multi-boot possible)
5. After we have finished preparation on our SourceRoot Directory E:CORP2IN1_EN, we use the CDIMAGE with -o option to generate an ISO CD-Image of the 2in1 CD: [b:a0bb287f2e]cdimage -lCORP2IN1_EN -t08/23/2001,12:00:00 -bE:CORP2IN1_ENBOOT.BIN -h -n -m -o E:CORP2IN1_EN E:CORP2IN1.ISO[/b:a0bb287f2e]. -l option for Volume Label; -t option for Time Stamp; -b option for Boot Image; -h for hidden files; -n for long filename; -m to disable ISO Size-Limit; -o for optimize magics.
6. The generated CORP2IN1.ISO is a CD-Image contains the DevilsOwn (i386 folder located under of the CD) and the Home Edition (i386 folder under WXHVOL_EN of the CD). The CD is bootable to DevilsOwn (it runs i386setupldr.bin during boot). If you insert the CD under Win32, it will autorun the setup.exe of the DevilsOwn (setup.exe)

People, take a deep breath now! Feel better? OK, I shall give you one more minute to get ready... Oh, sorry, typing mistake. I mean one more day!

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Last edited by khauyeung at Jul 20 2002, 10:13 AM