Confused about making bootable install CD

[Mark <mdevin@ozemail.com.au>]

I am a little confused about making a boot CD for installation of
Debian.

I do not want to just download the whole iso image as I only want the
base system so that networking / ppp can be setup and then can apt-get
the rest of the packages needed.

I figured that since there are 12 or so installation floppies then it
should only take about 20Mb of data.  I know that all the required files
exist in:
http://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/

My question is how do I make the CD bootable.  I assume I use the
/images-2.88/rescue.bin file and somehow write this to the CD so that it
boots.

Also, is this possible to write the CD using Windows, as I can't get my
usb HP CD Writer Plus to work with Debian yet?

Sorry if this question has been answered before.  I have been searching
with google and reading everything I can find but still don't get it.

Regards.

Mark.