As "Olórin" says in his reply, the file AUTORUN.INF only runs the setup [.exe] file
specified in it's contents on being detected by Window's "Auto-Run" facility (if not
disabled).

Booting, and getting a "setup" file to run, from a cd-rom, is totally different.

You first need to create a bootable floppy disk as your cd-rom's "boot-image" .

You can then insert a command into it's AUTOEXEC.BAT file to run on boot.

The final, bootable, cd-rom will use this floppy disk-image to boot from, and will
start the specified program, even if it is located on the "body" of the cd-rom
(rather than on the floppy image).

If your "setup" file will only run under Windows (or other 32/64bit OS), then you
would probably have to do things differently... make a PE disk (Preinstalled
Environment disk) for instance...

I'm sure there will be options for allowing such a disk to auto-start a selected
program when booted.

Look-up "BARTS PE DISK" on google.

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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Jim" wrote in message
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Can anyone tell me how one would go about creating a bootdisk
that would run a certain operating system setup program?

The disk has the AUTORUN.INF file in the correct format, but
the disc still will not boot. What I want to do is insert a
completely empty C: hard disk drive in my Thinkpad, and have the DVD
drive run the setup.exe for an operating system which is on the disk,
but it will not autostart.

I understand NERO has a way to create a bootdisk. Is there any other
way to create a disk that will autostart.

The Autorun.inf file reads as follows:

[Autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon=setup.exe,0


With the Thinkpad, you have the option to boot from the CD/DVD drive
upon startup.

Anyone know how I can make this disk autostart? I'm sure something is
missing from the disc.