I've got a 4 Gigabyte flash drive that I'd like to make bootable. For right now, I need it to boot DOS or DS linux. I'd like to have it boot to grub or something similar so I can select either one.

After configuring the BIOS to boot in legacy mode and selecting the USB drive, he successfully booted into the "bare metal" MS-DOS 8.0 environment with relative ease.

Reader Steve P. sends in this question: “I’m running Windows 2000 and want to upgrade my system BIOS. The instructions say to create a bootable disk with the format a:/s command. However, the /s doesn ...

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 ...

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 have a system that had three partitions and I was dual-booting Win98 (c:drive - FAT32) and W2K (d:drive - NTFS). Anyway, I completely trashed that setup and repartitioned the drive to just load ...