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gbollard
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25 Jun 2009, 2:16 am

I was wondering if anyone had any good instructions for creating boot disks - or even better ISOs for some good CDs that I can use on my son's computer. I'd like to be able to boot his computer to DOS or a command line Windows OS which supports extended memory etc...

The plan was going to be to create him a bunch of boot CDs so that I could Add DOOM onto one, (and various other DOS games). I'm not sure if these games need read/write to run - and if so, I figured that it might be possible to use a RAMDisk with them?

Anyway, I'm sure that if I had long enough (and enough coasters), I could eventually figure it out but I'm hoping that someone here already has some good answers?

Also - are there any "Boot and Game" Linux disks?

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25 Jun 2009, 8:33 am

I've used BartPE in the past. It works pretty well.


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25 Jun 2009, 11:15 am

gbollard wrote:
Also - are there any "Boot and Game" Linux disks?

Fedora offers a gaming-optimized LiveDVD.


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25 Jun 2009, 10:30 pm

Thanks Guys, I'll have a look into it.


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