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4 Advanced functions
4.1 Creating a bootable CD or DVD
Bootable media according to the El-Torito standard is the standard for creating
bootable discs for standard PCs. Using the floppy emulation mode, your PCs
BIOS provides some basic CD-ROM access functions that can read out an image
file of a bootable floppy disc stored on your disc.
Using this image, your BIOS will transparently emulate a normal floppy disc in
this mode of operation, e.g. when making your disc bootable using an image of a
DOS boot disk, this image will be visible to your system as drive 'A:' once booting
is done. Note that floppy emulation as well as any other emulation only works as
long as the BIOS is being used to access your disk drive.
With this concept in mind it should be pretty easy to create a bootable disc with
NeroLINUX. Select El-Torito bootable disc from the 'Boot' options in the 'ISO
Options' section and click on Boot options. In the dialog that appears you can
then either select an existing image file of a bootable device, like a DOS boot
disk, or you can select a bootable partition to create a boot image on the fly. If
you have some special needs, you can fine tune the options for creating the
bootable disc in the ‘Expert Settings’ sections of the boot options dialog.