Topic: Making a rescue boot CD with multiple application
Hello good people!
I m making a rescue boot CD which will have man application on it. Its very handy to have many applications on one CD 
When I will boot from this CD I will get a menu to choose the application I want to run it from.
I found it on this site www.hiren.info how to make it.
Up till now I put Testdisk and few other application on it and it works fine:D.
And now I want to put the GParted application on it as well. I m not sure how to do it because I cant find any exe file in the ISO image of GParted. Help me pls 
Here are the instructions how I maked a boot CD up till now;
Tools Used:
bfi.exe (Build Floppy Image - to create bootable image from files)
mkisofs.exe (a tool to create/build the CDRom ISO image file)
build-iso.cmd (batch file to create floppy and iso image)
We will need some files from Windows ME or Windows XP startup disk
io.sys (Dos Input Output System file)
msdos.sys (Dos system file)
command.com (MS-Dos mode command line interpreter)
himem.sys (An extended memory manager that is included with DOS and Windows)
mscdex.exe (Microsoft CD-Rom Extension)
oakcdrom.sys (Generic CD-Rom driver, work with the most of all IDE CD-ROM drives)
xmsdsk.exe (Adjustable XMS RAMdisk Driver - Freeware)
ctmouse.exe (Mouse Driver For Dos - also works on USB Mouse - Freeware) or mouse.com
This is how I done it up till now;
I the "AUTOEXEC.BAT" file I made this changes
@ECHO OFF
MSCDEX.EXE /D:CDDRIVER /L:X
XMSDSK.EXE 51200 R: /t /y
CTMOUSE.EXE
PATH=A:\;R:\
GOTO %CONFIG%
:TESTDISK
COPY X:\TESTDISK\*.* R:
R:\TESTDISK.EXE
GOTO DOS
:GHOST
COPY X:\GHOST\GHOST.EXE R:
R:\GHOST.EXE
GOTO DOS
:NTFS
COPY X:\NTFS\*.* R:
R:\NTFS4DOS.EXE
GOTO DOS
:RPM
COPY X:\RPM\*.* R:
R:\RPM.EXE
GOTO DOS
:DOS
ECHO X: CD DRIVE
ECHO R: RAM DRIVE
In the "CONFIG.SYS" file I made this changes;
[MENU]
menuitem=DOS, Dos
menuitem=TESTDISK, TestDisk
menuitem=GHOST, Ghost
menuitem=NTFS, Ntfs
menuitem=RPM, Partition Manager
[DOS]
DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:CDDRIVER /L:X
[TESTDISK]
include=DOS
[GHOST]
include=DOS
[NTFS]
include=DOS
[RPM]
include=DOS
[COMMON]
LASTDRIVE=Z
EXTRA EXPLENATION
You can add your favorite Programs in the bootcd,
All you need to do is Edit autoexec.bat and config.sys and add all the required files in the folder and double click on build-iso and you are ready to burn bootcd.iso
Example: You want to add Mcafee Antivirus in the bootcd, all you do is create a folder MCAFEE in the folder CD
and add a line in config.sys menu
menuitem=MCAFEE, McAfee Antivirus
add two more lines in config.sys
[MCAFEE]
include=DOS
and add 4 lines in autoexec.bat
:MCAFEE
COPY X:\MCAFEE\*.* R:
R:\scanpm.exe /adl /all /clean
GOTO DOS
when you start your computer with this bootcd, you will get to menu where you can choose which program you want to run. In this example we will create 50Mb Ram Disk (You will have Minimum of 64Mb Memory)
Microsoft Windows Startup Menu
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1. Dos
2. TestDisk
3. Ghost
4. Ntfs
5. Partition Manager
6. McAfee Antivirus
Enter a choice: 1
You can easily create bootable cd,
all you have to do is add few lines in autoexec.bat and config.sys
and copy files in CD folder and double click on build-iso.cmd
and it creates a iso file BootCD.iso
You can add as many items in the list but you are limited to 9 per screen
to add more items simply add submenu=MORE, More... (under [MENU] block)
and add [MORE] in config.sys and you can add more menuitem there
THANKS FOR HELP!
