I have several DOS based utilities that I use in Ham Radio to work on old VHF radios. I built an SSD that boots from DOS and copied the utilities to that SSD and that works in the shack.
What I want to do is image that disk and either burn it to a CD or burn it to a USB flash drive. I purchased WinISO but I have not been able to make the image bootable. I'm missing something.
If I point to the original 6.22 ISO, downloaded from “All Boot Disks,” for the boot image all I on the CD is that image. None of the other files are added. If I point to my SSD all I get is the files no boot.
BTW, Rufus does not like the ISO I downloaded or any of the ISO's I have made. But it seems to be the choice for bootable USB flash drive creation.
09/28/2024 Searching through the posts I found this one ...
How do I create a custom, bootable MS-DOS ISO image?
Sounds very much like what I wanted to so I followed the instructions and it did not work. The ISO was recognized by my burner software, WinISO, but the disks cannot be read. They show a burned area, they are not blank, but they do not boot. Neither does Windows Explorer find a file on the disk so I guess you could say they are magically blank. But you can't write anything more to them. On a side note I use Windows 10 and usually I just right click on the ISO file, tell it to burn it and it works. Doesn't work with these ISO files.
Any other ideas? I will continue to work on it.
