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Multiboot DVD by Aero step by step
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Hi
We are going to make a Multiboot DVD by Aero studio 2008 together.But befor starting tutor,i would
like to mention some points:
Aero is not the only program that uses graphical interface,but i think it is the best one in using
graphic,but not the best in giving results.May be this is becaus there is no help from programmer.
I requested dear "useronce" abouh writing help and he answered:
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i'm so sorry sir. ;-) if i had time, i will add this help. and,
if you have some question about the usage of commands, you can
ask me here..........
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I have a lot of questions but Any way i do not think that we can understand all the usages,just by
asking questions.and also i could not get any answer to one of my questions:
I asked question below:
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When I use "BCDW" for multibooting "Hiren's CD" and "Ultimate Boot CD",it works very well.
If Aero has BCDW in itself,Why we can not boot examples above by aero?
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Any way i like this program , so let's start our project: (Making Multiboot DVD by Aero)
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Step_01.What Do we want to do
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We are going to make a multiboot DVD that should do Actions below for us:
1.Setup Windows XP sp2
2.Run WinBuilder LiveXP
3.Run Partition Magic 8
4.Run Windows XP password Hacking
5.Run MaxBlast 4 v10.48
6.Run SeaGate 2004
7.Turn Off the computer
8.Restart Computer
9.Boot from 1st Hard Disk
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Step_02.Needs
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I will talk about needs and how to make them during tutor.
Note:
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1.Befor reading tutorial,it is better to download pictures.zip from attachment,
and look at them during tutor.
2.I suppose that you have installed Aero studio 2008 in D:\Program Files\Aeromgr
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Step_03.Making boot menu
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1)_.You can use a picture for background of your boot menu.this picture size can be 640x480 ,
800x600 or 1024x768 pixels.and Supported formats are PNG, GIF, BMP, JPG and TGA.
Make your favorite back ground and put that in D:\Program Files\Aeromgr\Themes\Wallpaper\
directory.(In this example I used pic_01.png , 800x600 pixels,see Pic_01 from attachment).
2)_.Run Aero Studio 2008 ,For using back ground picture ,go to "Format" in menue and select
"settings" ,a window will be shown (see pic_02),in background section give address of
picture you have just made.
3)_.In Resolution section select 800x600 (because your background picture was 800x600 pixels).
4)_.You will see number "25" In "Timeout section" ,this is the time that boot manager will wait
you to select one of the items of boot menue,and if you do not select any item during this time
the boot manager will run the default item (I will talk about default action in other place of
this tutor).
in this example type "30" in "Timeout" section,then click OK.
Now you will have your background in working area of Aero studio (see pic_03)
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Step_04.Making Buttons in Boot menu
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In Step_01,i said that our multiboot DVD should Do 9 actions , so at this time we should make
9 buttons over our background , (see pic_04),we do as below:
1)_.Go to "Control" in menue and select "Button".
2)_.Go to some place in work area,press and hold left button of mouse, and draw an rectangle (see
pic_05)
3)_.Repeat step above untill making 9 buttons as pic_04
4)_.Now we should type Titles of buttons , Double click on first button, a window like pic_06 will
be shown.
In "Grub Menu Title" type: Setup Windows XP sp2
In "Shortcut" section type : a
This means that for runing "seting up xp" in this example ,User can click on "seting up xp" button
or can hit "a" from keyboard.(Of course after pressing "a", user should press "enter" too.)
In "Theme" section select an style for your button (for example select "office2007.amt")
In "Caption" type: [a] Setup Windows XP sp2
Note that i have put "[a]" befor "Setup Windows XP sp2"to show to user that he can press "a"
instead of clicking the button.
You can click on "Font",and select font's type,size and color for button.
5)_.Now click apply,then OK.
6)_.Repeat step above for 8 other buttons ,(ofcourse by appropriate shortcuts and names as pic_04).
7)_.Go to "cotrol" in menu and select "progress",then draw progress bar as you drawed buttons
(see pic_04)
8)_.Save the project by the name of "myboot" and close Aero.
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Step_05.Providing Needed Files and folders
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In this step of work we should provide files and folders needed for our Multiboot DVD.
So go to D:\ and make directory "MultiBoot",Then go inside d:\MultiBoot and make another directory
by the name of "images" there .
Make another directory in D:\ by the name of Source, so you will have:
D:\Multiboot
D:\Multiboot\images
D:\Source
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I should mention one note here befor continuing the tutor:
We Can put all files needed for making multiboot DVD inside D:\Multiboot\ ,and at the end of making
process it should work, but in my experiences by Aero,most of the times,when contents of this directory
is large,Aero Image maker does not proceed,does not do any thing and does not even give error message
to know what is problem. After several times encountering by this problem I told that to programmer
in one of my posts an he thinks this is my fault,not program's fault.
Any way lets continue my way as below to make ready needed files:
1_ Copy Contents of your XP CD to D:\Source\
2_ Go through making WinBuilder LiveXP.ISO ,at the end you will have:
WinBuilder directory\Target\LiveXP
WinBuilder directory\ISO\LiveXP>iso
Go to WinBuilder directory\Target\LiveXP directory and rename "i386" directory to "MYXP"
Now copy all contents of LiveXP directory to D:\Source\
3_ Make bootable images for :
Partition Magic 8
XP password Hacking
MaxBlast 4 v10.48
SeaGate 2004
and put them in D:\Multiboot\images\ directory.Note that "Partition Magic 8" and "SeaGate 2004" have
two diskets for boot , so you should convert them to one image.if you do not know how to do this,read
my tutor in link below:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4574In this example i used files : "MBL4.BIN ,NTPASSWD.IMA , PMAG.BIN and SEGT.BIN". ofcourse you can
use ".IMA" or some other formats instead of ".BIN"
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Step_06.Writing Code for Buttons
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1_ Run Aero studio 2008,open "myboot" that you have saved in step_04.
2.Double click on "Turn Off" button ,a window will be shown (see pic_07) ,click on "T.." button
in this page (see pic_07),another window will be appeierd (see pic_08 ) select powerdown in new
page,then click OK, you will have pic_09 ,click "Apply" then OK.As you see in pic_09,in "command"
section is written: halt ,this is the code for turning off computer in Aero.
3.You do not need to write code for "boot from 1st hdd" button ,because this code is default for
all buttons before writing code for them.
4.For "Restart" button Do as "Turn Off" button,but select "reboot" in pic_08
5.For "setup xp sp2" button select "bcdw" in pic_8,then change command to :
bcdw (cd)/i386/setupldr.bin
6.For "winbulder livexp" button select "bcdw" in pic_8,then change command to :
bcdw (cd)/myxp/setupldr.bin as you see in pic_10
7.In the same manner type commands for other controls (buttons) as below:
For "XP pass hack" ------- bcdw (cd)/images/ntpasswd.ima
For "Partition Magic 8" -- bcdw (cd)/images/pmag.bin
For "SeaGate" ------------ bcdw (cd)/images/segt.bin
For "MaxBlst4" ----------- bcdw (cd)/images/mbl4.bin
8.At the end ,Click on "Save" button.
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Step_07.Selecting default action for our Boot menue
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1.Go to "view" in menue and click on "Ctrl ID" , your work space will be some thing like pic_11.
2.Select contol (button) that you want to select as default boot ,right click on number
of that and select "Min ID",it's ID will become "0"
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If you want to change other controls ID number ,you can right click on their numbers and select
ID+1 or ID-1,by each selecting the ID number of that control will be added/or subtracted one
number.for example if you right click on number 3 and select ID-1,it's number will change to
3-1=2
In our example
i sat them as pic_11
click on save icon.
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Step_08.Creating Project PreNeeded files
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1.Click on "generate" in menue (see pic_12),a window like pic_13 will be appeared.
2.In new page :
Type a name for menu
Type description for your project
Select a cursor For your mouse
I did as pic_13
3.Click to "go" button.after a few second the process of generation will be finished,at that time
close generation window.
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Step_09.Creating First ISO
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1.Now click on Deploy icon (see pic_14) ,another window will appear
(see pic_15) select "mydvd"
then duble click on picture of it you will have pic_16
2.Because our back ground picture was 800x600 , so place resolution on 800x600 as pic_16
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1.you can type a password in password section. if you do that the multiboot dvd will ask password
befor starting to work.
2.if you select enable startup screen in this page, the muliboot dvd will begin his work by showing
boot screen like vista's boot screen.
3.Click "Next" button.another window will be shown (see pic_17).
4.In new page Type the address of our source files(D:\Multiboot),and the address and name for iso
to be produced .I did as pic_17
5.Click on "Deploy" button .Another window will be shown (see pic_18).
6.At the end of process,a message window will be appeared (see pic_19) and will ask if you want to
test generated ISO on virtual machin or not, select no because our ISO is not complate yet!! (i told
the reason i Step_05 as a note).
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Step_10.Creating Real iso
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Open the iso made in D:\ by UltraISO and add all contents of
D:\Source folder (made in step_05) to iso and save it.
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Thats all,hope will be helpful,and hope we will see the english help for this nice program
from dear programmer soon!!
have nice times
shirin zaban
Jul 25 2008, 08:44 PM
