Transferring NT Boot Menu to a floppy Disk

[Dwharf]

Is there a way of transferring the NT Boot Menu to a floppy disk, so if a Floppy is in the machine, you can have the choice of booting in DOS mode from the floppy, or if you leave it for 10 secs it will launch NT from the C: Drive. Reason = I'm trying to create an unattended Installation Disk, The Disk works fine, but unless I eject it after it starts the NT install it restarts the installation after the first reboot. Any ideas greatly appreciated, Really good if someone knows a way of doing this with a CD, Thx, D.

[tifkne]

that option is in the boot.ini file. It sould be under C:\boot.ini
I am not sure if it will work like you are wanting. The boot.ini file also has the ARC paths and that might throw a kink in your plans.
And I would think that if it did work you could write you information on to a CD and then enter your BIOS settings and have your PC boot to CD.
Good luck

[HWMC]

You can create an NT Boot floppy - see www.ntfaq.com (http://www.ntfaq.com) for instructions. I don't know whether you can make that floppy a dual-boot though. See if John Savill knows how to do this because if he doesn't, nobody does!

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Howard Marsh
HWM Consulting Pty Ltd
Queensland, Australia

[electric]

Not sure if you can do exactly what you are wanting, but if you wish to change the time frame ( or if you are dual booting) the OS then edit the boot.ini.

[Dwharf]

Thanks Howard, haven't been able to find out how to do it (yet!), but will keep trying. The FAQ page is really good, and will thoroughly search through there shortly. Thanks everyone else for your input.