> On Feb 3, 2026, at 5:05 AM, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi again, > > let me take back the recommendation for Ventoy! > > Wikipedia discusses the possibility that it is backdoored. > > Rufus is only for Windows and Balena Etcher is huge, > as it is based on Electron, Chromium and Node.js? > > Unetbootin might be an option - have not tested it yet. > > Typical Linux ISOs are dual-use and can simply be DD-ed > on USB flash media, can we make the FreeDOS ISO support > the same trick?
While some do not, nearly all major Linux releases support doing that. While I have considered it and have some pretty good ideas on how it could accomplished, I’m not sure of exactly what method they use and if we could employ the same technique. It is something which I have not had the time to investigate at all. When I hopefully someday find the time and if it is possible, I would love to possibly add that feature to the LiveCD. But, such a change would most likely need to wait until the RBE4 is developed. While updating the RBE3 is not impossible, it has reached “end-of-life” and will only get any updates that are absolutely required for it to continue to function until the next version of the RBE is ready. Currently, the RBE4 development is on pause. Again, I just have to many things of greater need to FreeDOS which need done first. Assuming at some point we can support writing the ISO image to a USB or Flash Media, it is not likely to reduce the number of different media in the release by much. We would still: * FloppyEdition for ancient Systems * LegacyCD for old Systems * LiveCD for newer Systems * BonusCD for all the other packages not on the LegacyCD or LiveCD * FullUSB for users who will insist on everything being on one media * LiteUSB for users who don’t want a huge download. But, possibly that list could change to: * FloppyEdition * Legacy-CD for old systems, but is a LiveCD * FreeDOS-CD for newer systems, but otherwise the same as the other CD. Remove need of LiteUSB * Bonus-CD again, lots of packages * FreeDOS-DVD FreeDOS+Bonus, replacing the FullUSB. This would make the Legacy-CD, FreeDOS-CD and FreeDOS-DVD all “LiveCD” media. Again, all depends on finding the time to research the dual ISO/IMG writing and the creation of RBE4. But, I think it is something would make a great part of a transition to FreeDOS 2.0 at some future date. :-) > Regards, Eric > > > >> Hi Jerome, thanks for the update :-) >> I found that VENTOY https://www.ventoy.net/en/ <https://www.ventoy.net/en/> >> can help Linux and >> Windows users to make bootable USB sticks from ISO images, >> such as the live FreeDOS ones :-) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
