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DOS启动盘 & LOGO技术（启动盘室） » How many ways are there to boot DOS on a PC?

Floor1　warm	Posted 2003-10-23 00:00
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1. Boot from the hard disk 2. Boot from a floppy disk 3. Boot from a CD 4. Some motherboards now support booting from a USB flash drive Are there any other ways to boot DOS on a PC?

Floor3　warm	Posted 2003-10-23 00:00
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Not too good, because installing DOS on a hard disk of several dozen GB is too wasteful, but putting it on a floppy disk isn't reliable either—you never know when the disk might go bad. It would be best to make it into a BOOT ROM and burn it into the motherboard, like BASIC used to be.

Floor4　Wengier	Posted 2003-10-23 00:00
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There's also network booting. warm: My 6.4GB hard disk is mainly filled with DOS (MS-DOS 7.10, ROM-DOS 7.10, and FreeDOS), plus all kinds of DOS programs (including X-Window, Win3.x/9x GUI), etc. It's already full now, and I can't fit anything more on it, so there's no such thing as waste at all.

Floor5　warm	Posted 2003-10-24 00:00
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I mean using DOS as a production system. In that case, you would install only a DOS system + application programs, and no other systems on the hard disk.