The solutions I am going to point out below aren’t going to mimic this screenshot entirely, but the end solution will be the same: you’ll have DOS at the ready.
Since neither VMware or VirtualBox allow booting from a thumb drive, I’ll need to reference the below screenshot I grabbed after installing FreeDOS to a virtual machine. Solutions such as FreeDOS are designed to run anything DOS is meant to, including games.
You might want to do more than simply run a BIOS flashing tool, and that’s fine. The goal of this article is to give you the easiest solution to build a bootable DOS thumb drive ( flash drive). Some DOS-variants exist on “LiveCDs”, but you might run into the problem where you’ll be unable to find any files outside of the operating system itself (eg: C:). But even those can be a little complicated to get running, especially if you’re hoping to just plug in a thumb drive and boot right into it. You might be surprised to learn that DOS is stilll being kept alive thanks to projects like FreeDOS and DR-DOS. So – where on earth do you get a copy of DOS in 2012?
The most common? Updating that old-school BIOS we just mentioned. While most folks will never have to look at DOS in this day and age, there are situations where using it may be unavoidable. Like the old-fangled BIOS (which is slowly being phased out with the help of EFI), the DOS operating system is a piece of computing history that refuses to be only history.
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