Bootable CD's and hard to find older boot disks.

---- Hard To Find Old(er) Boot Disks ----

DOS 3.3 Unzip and copy the files to a floppy disk.
DOS 4.01 Unzip and copy the files to a floppy disk.

The following files are self extractors and are designed to be extracted directly to a floppy disk.

On newer versions of Windows Boot Disks, contact the
for more information.

Section 2--Bootable floppies to Bootable CD's

Turn All Of Your Old Bootable Floppies Into Bootable CD's [the easy way]

First Of All You Need A Cd-Burner, Nero Burning Rom v5.5 or higher
A Floppie Drive, A Blank CDR Disk
When You Have Everything:

With Your Floppy In The Drive And Blank CD In The CD-Recorder

Load Up Nero With Your Floppy In The Drive And Blank Cd In The Cd-Recorder
Close The Wizard
Hold Ctrl + N
Until A Box Appears
Scroll Down The List Until You Reach CDROM (Boot)
Click It
Bootable Logical Drive Must Be "A:"
Click The Burn TAB
Click New
Click File
Then Write CD
Then Write
Done

Nero is available here . Sure there are other applications that do it, but Nero seems to have an edge up on drive compatibility.

Another Easy Way To Turn All Of Your Bootable Floppies Into Bootable CD's

You Need A CD-Burner, Roxio Easy CD Creator, A Floppie Drive,
A Blank CD-R Disk After You Have Gathered Everything Together:
Put the blank CD in your drive
Place your bootable floppy diskette in drive A
Start Easy CD Creator
Select "File", "New CD Project", "Bootable CD"
Select the bootable CD type
Then Select OK

Enjoy your new bootable CD!
(This was written with reference to version 5.01 S30 of the software in Windows.)

And Here's Another Way For You To Make Bootable CD's

To Create A Bootable CD, You Need A CD-Burner, Roxio Easy CD Creator, A Blank CD-R Disk And The Bootable Source Media. (The source can be a floppy diskette, a hard drive or a previously created image file of any of these. Use "Help" if confused at step four below.)

After You Have Gathered Everything Together:

Put the blank CD in your drive
Start Easy CD Creator
Select "File", "New CD Project", "Bootable CD"
Select the bootable CD type
Then Select "OK"

Enjoy your new bootable CD!

Here's the Method To Create A Bootable CD From An ISO Image File
(You need the same resources as above)

Put the blank CD in your drive,
Start Easy CD Creator
Select "File", "Record CD from CD Image...."
From the browse window that comes up, select the type of file
Then browse for the image file
When found, select it
Select "Open"
Answer any dialog boxes that may appear
Select "Start Recording"

Enjoy your new bootable CD!
(These were all written with reference to version 5.01 S30 of the software under Windows.)

Thanks to Michael Kitchen of Front Row Computer
for the information in Section 2.

Section 1 -- Old Bootable Floppies Links