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A live CD or live DVD is a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive.
A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run an operating system or utility program. [1] The computer must have a built-in program which will load and execute a program from a boot disk meeting certain standards.
UBCD includes a variety of diagnostic tools that were originally intended to run under DOS, and also includes FreeDOS, which is used to run them. [8]UBCD includes a variety of disk partitioning, disk cloning, and antivirus utilities that were originally intended to run under Linux, and also includes a small Live CD Linux distribution (as of 2022, the freeware version of Parted Magic), which is ...
The FreeDOS project began on 29 June 1994, after Microsoft announced it would no longer sell or support MS-DOS. Jim Hall, who at the time was a student, [30] posted a manifesto proposing the development of PD-DOS, a public domain version of DOS. [31] Within a few weeks, other programmers including Pat Villani and Tim Norman joined the project.
Pages in category "Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media" The following 104 pages are in this category, out of 104 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
DR-DOS 7.07 (with BDOS 7.4/7.7) by Paul introduced new bootstrap loaders and updated disk tools in order to combine support for CHS and LBA disk access, the FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file systems, and the differing bootstrapping conventions of DR-DOS, PC DOS, MS-DOS, Windows, REAL/32 and LOADER into a single NEWLDR MBR and boot sector, so that the ...
The Linuxcare bootable business card, first released in 1999, was the first Live CD to focus on system administration, and the first to be distributed in the bootable business card form factor. As of 2023 [update] , Finnix (first released in spring 2000) is the oldest Live CD still in production.
The boot screen and command-line interface of MS-DOS 6, with an example of its directory structure The boot screen and command-line interface of FreeDOS, showing version information and an example of its directory structure. DOS (/ d ɒ s /, / d ɔː s /) is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers. [1]