Bootable USB Flash memory (with DOS)

This isn't a new topic. Already there are many guides out there for creating Bootable KNOPPIX on USB Flash card or memory stick. Here, I am looking for a different but also important problem: getting DOS (Dr.

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This isn't a new topic. Already there are many guides out there for creating Bootable KNOPPIX on USB Flash card or memory stick. Here, I am looking for a different but also important problem: getting DOS (Dr. DOS / OpenDOS / FreeDOS, etc.) to boot on USB Flash memory.
 
This will be useful for flashing motherboard BIOS (or display card BIOS). Also many recent notebook models just don't bundle floppy drive anymore; Nor do I have any reason for owning floppy disks if I can have DOS bootable on USB memory card, and flash BIOS with it.
 
Here are the guides for creating bootable DOS on USB memory stick or Flash card.
 
1. Bootable USB Keys (solution for Linux and Windows)
http://www.marlow.dk/usbkeys
 
2. Bootable USB memory stick (solution for Windows)
http://blogs.msdn.com/mikeshaw/archive/2004/07/23/192423.aspx

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howdy zero0w
 
what can I say, apart from "whoa! just what I need!". At the mo I'm doing a rewrite of a very, very old application that was based upon DOS 6.22 and EMM386.EXE (THE HORROR!
 
So a million thanks to you, dude/dudette (dunno), as this will greatly aid me in my "time-travelling" task, back to the shores of "himem.sys" and "smartdrv" as the techniques described should give me a "DOS"-box quickly on any of the dev-machines via the USB-devices, thanx!
 
(I'm already curious what the DOS network layer has to say to the on-board gigabit-NICs, tee-hee)

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No problem, don't mention it.
 
Can't believe DOS developers are still around. 8)

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Nice find!
 
I've been strugging with my bios and pen drives and this may help a lot.
 
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