Howard Ball forwarded the following article by Jeff Burchell posted on 15 Dec 2002 to the IRLP Digest that reads:

"This is what my Red Hat Linux (6.1) for Dummies book says (mildly paraphrased)
for creating LINUX BOOT DISK from WINDOWS:

Take a FORMATTED 1.44Mb floppy and place it in your floppy drive. Place the
first Red Hat CD in your CD drive. Open up a DOS window.

Assuming your Windows hard drive is C: and your CD-ROM is D: and your floppy
is A:, you are going to change to \dosutils subdirectory and execute the
file rawrite.exe:

   C:\>
   C:\> D:
   D:\> cd \dosutils
   D:\DOSUTILS\> rawrite
        Enter disk image source file name: d:\images\boot.img
        Enter target diskette drive: a:
        Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and
             press  -ENTER-  :  <Enter>
  
   D:\DOSUTILS>

You can close the DOS window and remove the floppy and you have a boot disk
for Linux.

This is pretty easy to do, isn't it?"