Gentlemen:

I know this issue has been raised elsewhere, but all the threads I found went off on tangents before anybody reached a usable explanation.

My problem is this: I've downloaded the new 8790 system BIOS as an ISO file. In order to perform the BIOS upgrade, the ISO file must be burned to a bootable CD. Nero insists that to burn a bootable CD, a bootable source disc must be inserted in a floppy drive. I HAVE NO FLOPPY DRIVE. Nero doesn't seem to understand this, and is not interested in browsing for another location.

Can one of you CD-burning afficionados tell me how to get Nero to burn a bootable CD without a floppy drive? Or failing that, whether I can do it by hand, and which files I need to copy?

Go easy on me, for I am a 53-year-old Dinosaur from the DOS-ozoic Era. Back then, you could make one of those 5 1/2-inch flabby discs bootable on your 16MHz 286 by typing SYS A: [Enter], and the appropriate files were copied from your 32MB HD.

Thank you in advance for an "early-stage-Alzheimer's-compatible" answer.

I think you misunderstand how you burn an iso file. you don't create a new project as a bootable cd, u just burn the iso image since the image itself is bootable (the boot image is built into the iso.. someone has done the work for u). very similar to the winimage .im* files.

that option in nero is on the top menu under recorder>burn image.

If you do this any other way, u will simply have a cd with a whatever.iso file on it, no different than the way it sits on your hard drive right now, and then you'd have a useless coaster.

hope this helps

ah, the joy of 720k disks and massive grinding hard drives that cost as much as our laptops do now... also back before microsoft introducted us to the bsod. sometimes i miss the simplicity.

Do you remember the old atari's and c64's with those darned tapes and having to type run commands before anything would even load. We could always plunk one of those beasts down in front of these young-pups and confuse the hell out of them.

What ramazz said.

So when Nero says...

What would you like to burn?
Data
> Data Disc
> Bootable Data Disc

...I select just plain "Data Disc" (NOT "Bootable Data Disc"), because the ISO itself is already bootable?

Close that windows and just go to RECORDER > BURN IMAGE from the drop downfile.

That is for Nero 6, it was a slightly different process in Nero 5---I think FILE > burn image

iI still own a VIC20, C64, and a C128. How is that for being old?

:-)

Yep, that be some old hardware. Do they all work still??

Yes, They are all still fully functional.

Jeff

If you have a TRS-80 Level 1 - Then you're old

Hey that is what I started out on in '77. Then went to an IBM with two floppys, no HD and monochrome monitor for $3500.00. I am starting to think I am getting old when I look into the mirror and see the absence of hair and what is left is very gray, but hey I still feel young. Well some of the time anyway.