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tomsrtbt (pronounced: Tom's Root Boot) is a very small Linux distribution.It is short for "Tom's floppy which has a root filesystem and is also bootable." [1] Its author, Tom Oehser, touts it as "The most GNU/Linux on one floppy disk", containing many common Linux command-line tools useful for system recovery (Linux and other operating systems.)
The Ultimate Boot CD contains freeware and open-source diagnostic tools from a variety of sources. Many of these tools were originally designed to boot from a floppy disk drive. The Ultimate Boot CD made it possible to run them on a PC without a floppy drive. [5] UBCD can also run from USB for computers without an optical drive. [5]
Mtools is an open source collection of utilities to allow a Unix operating system to manipulate files on an MS-DOS file system, typically a floppy disk or floppy disk image. [2] [3] The mtools are part of the GNU Project and are released under the GNU General Public License (GPL-3.0-or-later).
Infocom offered the only third-party games for the Macintosh at launch by distributing them with its own bootable operating system. [1] A scaled down version of GeoWorks Ensemble was used by America Online for their AOL client software until the late 1990s. AOL was distributed on a single 3.5-inch floppy disk, which could be used to boot ...
VGA-Copy was created by the German software developer Thomas Mönkemeier. The main code was developed in Turbo Pascal ; some low-level hardware parts were written in Turbo Assembler . VGA-Copy was originally released as shareware : A free test version was spread through bulletin board systems and shareware CDs; a license key file to turn the ...
While a bootable floppy disk can be used to help recover a failing hard disk, [4] one major limitation on using a floppy disk that booted a standalone copy of MS-DOS was that "DOS can't handle NTFS hard-drive partitions." BartPE is a reasonable first choice for Windows users: it's free, and it's #2 in a list of alternatives; #1 is Linux ...
KryoFlux consists of a small hardware device, [4] [5] which is a software-programmable FDC system that runs on small ARM-based devices that connects to a floppy disk drive and a host PC over USB, and software for accessing the device. KryoFlux reads "flux transitions" from floppy disks at a very fine resolution. [6]
FreeDOS (formerly PD-DOS) is a free software operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. It intends to provide a complete MS-DOS-compatible environment for running legacy software and supporting embedded systems. [6] FreeDOS can be booted from a floppy disk or USB flash drive [7] [8] and is designed to run well under virtualization or x86 ...