[X4U] Boot Camp - help with making a bootable Windows disc

[Stroller]

On 26 Jan 2008, at 20:27, Brett Conlon wrote:
> ...
> As explained in my previous post, I have a WinXP CD with SP1 built- 
> in. ...
> As instructed in the technote, I downloaded the "Microsoft  
> Corporation.img" file from the MS website (apparently this file is  
> used to make the CD a bootable disc).
>
> I then used Nero 6 (v6.6.1.5a) to burn a bootable CD of the  
> slipstreamed WinXP copy but my Nero 6 didn't have any of the manual  
> settings the technote told me Nero 6 should have, in fact I  
> couldn't find the specific "Nero Burning ROM 6" application.  
> Instead I had a more GUI main interface that only gave me the  
> "Bootable CD" option that had lots less options than the technote  
> showed and didn't allow me to choose the downloaded "Microsoft  
> Corporation.img" file prior to burning. Instead I was given 2  
> options: 1) select a bootable floppy disk in drive A or 2) use  
> Nero's built-in bootable ROMs and simply choose a language  
> (English). I chose the latter coz I didn't have a bootable floppy.

Hi Brett,

Sounds like you're using Nero's "wizard mode" - on your XP box you  
may be able to start Nero in a full or "advanced" mode if you go to  
Start > All Programs > Ahead > Nero.

Alternatively you can use something like this to copy the .img file  
onto an actual floppy so that you're able to point Nero at it:
http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/floppyimage.html

A floppy .img file is simply a bitwise copy, by the way, so on a Mac  
you should be able to use `dd` to create & restore images of floppies.

Stroller.