how to make rescue CD

[captainquint]

Etch is installed, from a 3 DVD set, in an Athlon XP2000+ box with DVD-ROM and CD-RW, and in a Duron 1300 box, in which the DVD-ROM was used for the Etch install, and is now removed, leaving only a CD-RW drive as secondary master.
In the Duron box, I tried 'mkboot', which produced an apparently unbootable floppy(GRUB, and not LILO, is installed).
Can I use the Athlon box to make a rescue CD for both systems from an image on DVD 1, or other method?
I made a rescue CD for Fedora 4 a couple of weeks ago, because a floppy was just too small, but I can't remember the 'mkbootdisk' commands, and all my notes were lost Sunday when PC-BSD installed, and completely wiped Windows XP and Debian Etch.
Thanks for your advice.

[RumbleFish]

It's not a full 'rescue' CD but i just use the first Debian install CD.

Put the first Debian install CD in the drive and boot as you would if you were installing a new Debian version.

When the first install screen appears ALT-F2 to another virtual console.
You will have a lot of command line tools like fdisk, mk2fs, tunefs and some more.

Mark.

[jledhead]

there is a program called remastersys, I haven't tried it but it sounds really cool
remastersys debian - Google Search

[captainquint]

Thanks for your answers.
In the Duron 1300 box, I used
fdformat /dev/fd0
and
mke2fs /dev/fd0
then
cd /media/floppy0
mkdir boot
cd boot
mkdir grub
then
cd /boot/grub
and copied stage1, stage2, device.map and menu.lst to
/media/floppy0/boot/grub
because I just needed to be able to get back into Debian if Windows overwrote GRUB in either the Athlon or Duron box.
I could remove device.map and menu.lst from the floppy and use it in either system, with the 3 commands from grub> or make a floppy for the Athlon box with its own device.map and menu.lst