bootable cd

[Mombo]

I would like to know exactly what the need for a bootable cd it..? If, for example, I have a formatted hard drive, ready for OS, I normally boot it up with floppy boot disk and type d: setup to accss the OS cd to load the system. with a bootable cd, could I just do away with the floppys to start right from the git-go? Would it boot up normally after that without the cd, or would it have to be in the cd rom each and every time I wanted to start up the computer? Im confused all to hell. somone please straighten my phat ass out on this one... thanks

[EvilRick]

There's really no difference, exept it's from the CD.

I really don't know how else to explain it.

You're skipping the step of loading CD-ROM drivers and faster than a floppy.

[MDS]

also most OS cd's are bootable now a days including linux iso's burned to disk.

[John Prophet]

you wouldnt need it to boot everytime..its just to load/install the OS the first time.

I dont know why but I never liked booting of the cd so I always use the floppy, lol....at least on W98.

hehe, on some comps, like an HP scsi tower I cant remember the name of, if you boot from cd to do a build and then it reboots with cd in, it gives you a vxd error and I have seen people do rebuilds not knowing that it is just because the cd is in there, lol.

And when I do w98 build I always put the cab files on the hard drive so I used to extract them to the hd first while booted from floppy and do the install from the cab files...that way I wouldnt have to worry about forgetting the cab files.

(plus I liked to show off cuz I was the least experienced tech yet the other guys didnt know how to extract files etc)

JP