Like the old-fangled BIOS (which is slowly being phased out with the help of EFI), the DOS operating system is a piece of computing history that refuses to be only history. While most folks will never ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

Your USB drive can be your emergency toolkit at home and away, and if the host machine supports booting from a USB drive, you can boot to a USB key that you've prepared in advance. USB drives can boot ...

Sometimes, the size and complexity of modern OSes – even the FOSS ones – is enough to make us miss the days when an entire bootable OS could fit in three files, when configuring a PC for production ...

I'm using PXE to boot FreeDOS using memdisk (http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php)<BR><BR>Right now I'm just using a generic freedos disk image I downloaded and it ...

How do I make a bootable Dos disk in w2K? Or download from where?<P>Am I embarassed to ask? You bet.<P> View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_confused.gif ...