That's odd, because I have Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, and Windows 2000 Professional CDs that all boot. I just checked each one of them. However, except for the Windows 2000, they are all copies of the originals and I don't have the originals anymore. The only non-bootable CD I have is an original Windows 95 that appears to have been shipped with a PC. I must reside on that plane of existance where all Windows CDs boot. Mike Bresnahan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <chrome at real-time.com> To: <tclug-list at lists.real-time.com> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 2:23 PM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] how anti-piracy measures make piracy more likely. > > I'm confused, as far as I know, all of my Windows install CDs are > > bootable. How else would you install on a machine with no OS? > > win98 SE was the first version that I ever saw with a bootable CD. > personally, I have no idea how they intend for you to get win95 on a > machine, since I've never actually seen a win95 boot floppy (except for the > all-floppy version of win95a, which is long dead). such things are > mentioned, but never seen, and I never saw a README file or the like, on the > CD itself. > even winNT isn't bootable; but at least I have seen boot floppies with that > CD. > > I always just kept a custom DOS utilities floppy around, for doing installs, > rescues, reformats, etc. > > Carl Soderstrom. > -- > Network Engineer > Real-Time Enterprises > (952) 943-8700 > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list