LAST EDITED ON Apr-15-03 AT 03:48 AM (EDT)
 
Dear Gentlebeings,

what you are about to read tries to cover more than one thing...
I am well aware it is a lot to digest.
It is something you probably want to read more than once, at different times.
Jaak.
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BOOTERS REVISITED

Hmmmmm...

What seems like several eons ago, early versions of what jokingly became known as "butter" saw first light.
A strange name perhaps.
Booter was originally about bootdisk creation and setting up a hard drive for the windows 98 platform, but just like things go in this world, it went beyond.
First of all, it talks about booters.
A booter is a boot disk, so we're talking about the start disk, the ERD and EBD, and methods to create utilities disks.
It also talks about FDISK and FORMAT, which are used to prepare a machine for Windows SETUP.
But more important, it will talk about some pitfalls you may have not been aware of, as most sites I looked at do not mention them, or do not explain them.
Some of the pitfalls are easily avoided. Others, erm...

Anyway, here are a few things that may be of help.

for instance;

• When people need a virus free booter.
  sidenote; Please, DO create your Antivirus rescue disks...

• Or;
  When people have no "specialised third party" utility to partition/repartition.

• Or;
  When people cannot or SHOULD NOT boot from CDROM.
  and/or have no boot disk that supports their CDROM-drive.
  Cannot: This can happen when BIOS does not have the option, or CDROM is connected to a controller one cannot boot from...
  Should not: This can happen when one shouldn't run setup while booting from CDROM, which is the case when the hard disk needs an overlay.

• Or;
  You got "cannot copy to C:" error
  You got "invalid media, disk needs to be formatted" error.

• Dual boot setup gets brief mention

• HP, Compaq, and Packard Bell get mentioned too

• other than windows 98 versions get some coverage

• or.....

  
  

When bootable, it can be called "system disk".
The various bootable diskettes have disimilarities.
One could wonder "what's in a name?", but, when you consider that a DISC is not a DISK, it's not just for semantics.

Some intro, huh?

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