Newsgroup: it.comp.hardware.storage
Titolo: (BG) cd autoistallante

Ho la necessità di creare un cd autoinstallante per prepare dei pc , da
utilizzare in ambiante industriale, quindi medesima piattaforma.In parole
povere creo il Master con ghost , devo fare in modo che selezionado dal bios
il boot da CD , automaticamente venga ripristinata l'immagine,, che ho
creato con il prototipo ,sul disco di sistema C.
I modo che se il cliente , provocasse dei danno al software che Noi
preinstalliamo, possa , inserendo il cd e senza nessun comando  ,
ripristinare il sistema originale.
Qualcun mi può dare una dritta???
Angelo

http://www.swzone.it/articoli/w2ksp3-cdrwin/pagina1.php
e poi ho provato con le indicazioni del tipo, funzionano ma non ho il link
in ufficio! Se mi ricordo ti mando il resto da casa questa notte. Ho provato
a "sezionare" quello di XP prof. per aggiungere delle directory e
riassemblarlo. Funzia!
Writing Bootable CD-ROM: Try This At Home
by Bob Starrett
CD-ROM Professional, August 1995 - Copyright © Robert A. Starrett
For years, the thought of a bootable CD-ROM has intrigued many: how could it
be done in the DOS world? For Macintosh  and Unix, bootability has never
been a problem; if you made a byte-for-byte copy   of a Mac or Unix hard
disk to CD, the system could recognize the device and proceed to boot the
disc. You can make a CD-ROM image from a DOS hard drive just like you can
from a Mac or Unix drive, but it won't boot.
In DOS, you need two things to access a CD-ROM drive: the first is a device
driver that must be loaded so the system can recognize the CD-ROM device.
The second is the MSCDEX program or one of its variants  from Corel,
Meridian, or other manufacturers that assigns a drive letter to the CD-ROM
drive and allows DOS to access the files on the disc. And so the problem
with a bootable DOS CD-ROM is that to boot   the machine, the command
interpreter, 
COMMAND.COM
, must be loaded, and then the device driver for the
CD-ROM drive can be loaded, and then MSCDEX.EXE can be started, and only
then do you get access to the files on the CD-ROM. Hence, a catch-22, to
load 
COMMAND.COM
 from a CD-ROM you must first load the device driver and
MSCDEX. But you can load neither without first loading 
COMMAND.COM
.
The solution is to be able to recognize the presence of a CD-ROM before
COMMAND.COM
 is loaded, and this can be done through the computer's BIOS
(Basic Input/Output System) or a BIOS on a SCSI or  IDE adapter card. Once
the drive is recognized by the BIOS, there must be a structure on the CD-ROM
that allows the BIOS to load 
COMMAND.COM
 or a command interpreter for
another operating system. Phoenix Technologies and IBM have jointly released
the "El Torito" Bootable CD-ROM Format specification, which defines how a
boot image or images should be placed physically on the CD-ROM. The
specification contains a lot of low-level details concerning the structure
and makeup of the bootable disc. The bad news is that it takes a while to
wade through the specification to figure out exactly how to set up a disc
for bootability. The good news is that you can make a bootable CD-ROM using
readily available tools and most CD-ROM Recordable software.
More good news: the bootable CD is still an ISO 9660 disc, so it can be
replicated and distributed like any other CD-ROM. The disc can contain
anything that is normally placed on CD-ROM and you can give  the user the
option to boot from it or not. [For more on the origins of El Torito
Specification, readers should re-visit "Fresh Tortillas and  CD-ROM
Standards: The El Torito Bootable CD-ROM specification," in the Standards
column, by Dana J. Parker, in July 1995 CD-ROM Professional (Volume 8,
Number 7)--ed.] Version 1.0 of the El Torito Specification is dated January
25, 1995; it is available without charge to anyone and there are no
licensing fees required for the use of any of the information contained in
the spec.
WHAT IS A BOOTABLE DISC?
The process of creating your own bootable CD-ROM is tedious, to be sure, but
until CD-Recordable software vendors add this support to their software
programs, or until someone writes a program that will  automatically patch
an existing ISO 9660 image file--which is not especially difficult--the
tedious way is the only way to do it. And how tedious can the process be?
Well, for one thing, it helps to be handy with hexadecimal numbers. The El
Torito Specification describes itself as "defining how makers of CD-ROMs can
package several 'images' of floppy and hard disks on a single CD with the
ability to catalog these images and to selectively boot from a single
image." The document, in what must be one of the great failures of public
encouragement, also states the assumption that the would-be bootable disc
maker is "familiar with standard BIOS INT 13 functions, ISO 9660,
IBM/Microsoft INT 13 Extensions and ATAPI." Fortunately, although some
familiarity with the sector structure of a CD-ROM is helpful, you can
understand and make a bootable CD without being familiar with any of those
other things.

ecco il link. Avevo una replica!
http://www.cdpage.com/

e qui trovi il resto, esattamente quello che chiedi.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~rossstew/drs/sec2.html#bk21

Ciao
Esiste un programma simile a ghost: Partimage
Una volta creata l'immagine della partizione di sistema
si puo' creare un cd di Boot che la contenga e la ripristini.
E' un programma per linux
http://www.partimage.org/