Jetro
A ideal mini OS bootable CDROM should support USB, Network, CDROM, and NTFS.
I find FreeDOS can do that, but it is under developing.
however, DOS already have IPX network, CDROM, NTFS read tools.
linux no my choose, I need running others DOS application.
> Look at WinPE and or ERD Commander and or BartPE to get an idea how it works
> but I've never seen mini-NT4 bootable CD. Plain networked MS-DOS can be run
> off single diskette and CDROM indeed but network drivers are a PITA.
> You can easily build mini-Linux CDROM.