Combining several small bootable iso into 1 bootable CD?

[tigerb]

I've several small programs in bootable iso format which I can burn each image to an individual CD and make each of them bootable, however since these iso are only 50-120 MB each (don't want to waste my CDs), is there a way to combine all these programs/iso into 1 bootable CD? and let the CD prompt me which programs to run? and is there any software/s that can do this?

Thanks and best regards

[mats.hogberg]

It's surely possible, but I don't think there's an appliaction written for such a task. I think you'll have to learn to do it yourself.

/Mats

[tigerb]

Thanks mats for the feedback

Too bad I'm not a programmer.
I thought I could use a program like Nero to create the CD, I guess not! With Nero, I could use NVE to burn several video files into 1 DVR with menu and upon inserting the DVR I could choose which movie to lauch......I thought I could do the same with the CD (with several small programs)....wishful thinking of me

Regards.

[Baldrick]

this is not video related. moving you to our computer forum.

[Supreme2k]

What you could do is extract the images to their own folders to burn on a CD, then use an autorun menu creator.

Here's a free one

There are many more to check out.

[mats.hogberg]

The key word is bootable. Making a autorun menu requires the computer to have booted already.
I could possibly imagine you could do something using GRUB, LILO or other boot switcher to accomplish this, but nothing that doesn't require quite some know-how.

/Mats

[Supreme2k]

Maybe we should ask tigerb to explain his terminology.

tigerb, when you use the term "bootable", do you mean:

A. the discs are usable, meaning that you pop them in the drive (while running Windows) and they autorun/self-start.

or

B. You put the disc in th drive, reboot the computer, and the disc program runs instead of Windows.


If it is A, use my previous suggestion.

If it is B, use my previous steps, except substitute a Dos-based menu, as shown in this link

[mats.hogberg]

If it's A, follow Supreme2k's advice.
If it truly is B, creating a DOS menu still won't do you no good, as a bootable image, boots without OS, not even MSDOS. For all we know, the boot image may contain it's own OS (maybe MS-DOS, maybe Linux, maybe BSD - maybe just an application that doesn't require an OS at all).

/Mats

[tigerb]

Thanks Supreme2K, Mats.

"B" - that's the one!

Here is my situation, I've WD/Seagate and soon Hitachi HDDs and every one of these comes with a CD (setup/utilities/problem solving/create floppy disk) and I want to combine all these programs/CD into 1 CD just like the UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/)

:P

p/s Ya, the link to How to Make Dos Menus should be the one! Thanks+++++