Bootable AVG CD



I've put my AVG rescue onto CD instead of the ever growing multitude of floppies, so I thought I would share the method with you. It was based on an idea posted on the S&V forum (17758 Win98User). My version goes like this:-
Create Folder c:\avgresc

Copy autoexec.bat from AVG Rescue "floppy 1" into the above folder and rename it to avdos.bat (for convenience of typing from DOS during rescue).

Run AVG Rescue and Create files in c:\avgresc (14 more files) instead of floppies - only takes seconds. Copy all 15 files to "CD-R" using CD burner. Delete all files from c:\avgresc when done.

In future, keep avdos.bat on the CD. Use your burner to delete the rest and then add the new rescue files (via c:\avgresc). The file avg.exe doesn't change date, so it could be retained to save a little wasted space. Some other files do not appear to change (apart from date) but I decided it was not worth the risk of retaining them.

TO RUN RESCUE, boot with W98SE Startup Disk and select CD-ROM support.

Put CD in drive and type:- x: (hit Return key), where x is one letter above your usual drive letter because the Startup Disk temporarily changes this.

Then type:- avdos (hit Return key and follow prompts).

ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Re-writeable disks NOT used because the were not seen in DOS (CD-RW's are unreliable anyway). I did all burning at low speed because of the importance of this CD.

Rescue (not finalized) ran fine from either my CD Writer or DVD-ROM.

I marked the CD with the drive letter & colon and also avdos as reminders. I kept a spare copy of avdos.bat in a sub-folder of c:\secreg (just in case I lost it).

It's a lot of words but far quicker to do than fiddling around with all those floppies. It currently adds about 10M each time so the CD-R should last quite a while. Check that rescue works after at least one update before dumping floppies.