Suggestion: make a boot disk like this - China DOS Union Forum

Now USB flash drives are everywhere, and motherboards support booting from USB too, so could a boot disk be made for USB flash drives?
The advantage is that the capacity is much larger than a floppy, so it can hold more stuff and it’s not as easy to break.
The current ones are all 1.4MB in size. I think even making it 10MB would be fine... my USB flash drive is 64MB.
What I did was first install the admin’s boot disk onto a floppy, then use a USB flash drive utility to make the USB flash drive bootable.
Then I copied the files from the floppy onto the USB flash drive, and added some software I needed myself.
I think if you people made one, it definitely wouldn’t be like this — you would surely make an even better and more powerful boot disk.
I’m looking forward to it....

Floor1　456321	Posted 2004-05-06 00:00
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Now USB flash drives are everywhere, and motherboards support booting from USB too, so could a boot disk be made for USB flash drives? The advantage is that the capacity is much larger than a floppy, so it can hold more stuff and it’s not as easy to break. The current ones are all 1.4MB in size. I think even making it 10MB would be fine... my USB flash drive is 64MB. What I did was first install the admin’s boot disk onto a floppy, then use a USB flash drive utility to make the USB flash drive bootable. Then I copied the files from the floppy onto the USB flash drive, and added some software I needed myself. I think if you people made one, it definitely wouldn’t be like this — you would surely make an even better and more powerful boot disk. I’m looking forward to it....

Floor2　minisheep	Posted 2004-05-07 00:00
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Then I suggest you put 51's boot disk onto a USB flash drive!

Floor3　freelu	Posted 2004-05-09 00:00
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Yeah, yeah, support

Floor4　bush	Posted 2004-05-10 00:00
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Could a boot disk collection be made for USB flash drives?

Floor5　sunchase	Posted 2004-05-11 00:00
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USB flash drives are very slow. I put that 17mb compressed win98 on my USB flash drive; not counting boot time, just extracting it from the USB flash drive into the RAM virtual hard disk took me two cigarettes...

Floor6　xmcai	Posted 2004-05-11 00:00
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It would be even better if a boot disk could be made just for booting external hard drives. Thanks.