On Sunday, January 16th, 2022 at 3:34 PM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote:
> ...
> I run Linux, and use Fedora on my PC. When I download a new version of
> [Fedora Workstation](https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/), it
> comes as a DVD ISO image. But my PC doesn't have a DVD drive (my previous
> laptop didn't have an optical drive either) so I write the ISO image to a USB
> fob drive using [Fedora Media
> Writer](https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/04/26/fedora-media-writer-the-fastest-way-to-create-live-usb-boot-media#how_does_it_work__).
> I think you can do the same with [Rufus](https://rufus.ie/en/). It writes
> the image and makes the USB fob drive bootable.
>
> So my question is really: what about using Rufus to write the FreeDOS 1.3 CD
> ISO image to a USB fob drive - instead of providing a 32MB "Lite" USB image
> and a 512MB "Full" USB image.
> ...
FWIW, when I need to boot FreeDOS on real hardware, I almost always do it this
way using the built-in tools of Linux Mint. Works great for me, so I see no
reason why the average FreeDOS user couldn't do something similar.
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