From time to time I like to test out a new Linux distribution or just an updated version of my current distribution. I’ve created extra partitions on my hard drive for these test installations. All of the distributions I’ve tried so far require a boot loader to be installed to the hard drive as part …
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Sometimes you just need a DOS boot disk. Many motherboard manufacturers and computer companies only provide DOS based BIOS update utilities. A further challenge is that many computers no longer have floppy disk drives. The solution is to create a bootable USB drive that boots to FreeDOS. The beauty of this method is that you …
Continue reading Create a Bootable USB Drive with Ubuntu and FreeDOSLast weekend I finally decided to give the Windows 7 beta a try. I’ve got three hard drives in my computer. Drive 1 has Windows 2000 and Ubuntu 8.04 on it. The Grub boot loader is on the master boot record to select the OS at boot time. Drive 2 is set up as a …
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