Ars Technica

"DOS BOOT DISK" equivalent Darwin CD?

Ok, so I mailed my sister the 10.2.6 combo update on CD, and somehow she managed to completely hose the OS X install on her iMac.<BR><BR>In the process of trying to fix this, I eventually had her ...
Computerworld

Creating an MS-DOS Boot Disk

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 ...
Ars Technica

Booting into DOS from ATAPI Zip Drive?

Is it possible to create a DOS 6.22 (or Win98 DOS) bootable Zip disk? If so, does anyone have detailed instruction on how to do this?<P>I have an ATAPI Zip250 drive, if that makes a difference. I'd ...
Computerworld

Booting in MS-DOS

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 ...
CNET

Disks formatted in MS-DOS mode using Disk Utility may not work with devices

A MacFixIt reader reports issues formatting disks in MS-DOS FAT using Apple's Disk Utility. When storage devices (in this case, flash memory cards) are formatted using Disk Utility, they may not be ...