Boot diskettes, No floppy drive

[Charles]

I am in the process of using Partition Majic to install linux in my laptop. As I read extensively thru how to install linux for dual boot I come across creating a boot diskette for both operating systems in case the boot loader fails to recognize either of them. This laptop doesn't have a floppy drive.

How can I make boot diskettes on CD's to boot from the CD-ROM?

Thanks.

Update,
The CD's are bootable, never mind.

[velkropie]

try nero, they have a cdrom bootdisk command, hopefully your system let's you boot from cdrom...or you can try bootdisk.com, they have a lot of tools...another way will be to type cdrom boot on google...that will get you some great webs to check...

[glc]

Spend 25 bucks and order a USB floppy drive from Newegg or whoever. It's a tool that will seldom be used, but if you don't have one, when you NEED one, you will be up the creek, and paying 50 bucks for one at CompUSA. There are still some things that either REQUIRE a floppy, or a workaround that's a real pain in the rear. Been there done that - had to update a bios on a laptop the other day and spent 3 hours trying alternatives to a floppy - gave up and had to go get a floppy drive. Sure, you say - just copy the flash to the hard drive and boot with a CD. Well, that's nice, but it's NTFS and a 98SE boot CD cant see NTFS. The generic Nero boot CD image is very nice - it's Caldera DOS and sees NTFS - but it loads EMM and the flasher won't run. Make a boot CD with a Win98 boot image and burn the flasher and bin file to a CD? The flasher can't open a read-only bin file. Flash in Windows? No way, this laptop doesn't have a Windows flasher available and I don't trust those anyway. This is the same reason that if you don't want to install a floppy in your desktop, you still should have a floppy drive and cable available. I wasted 3 hours when I could have been done in 5 minutes.