2009-03-17

Create USB MSDOS bootable disk in Linux

1. Insert USB stick, check dmesg for device, for example /dev/sga
2. Run fdisk and create FAT16 bootable partition
3. Downloa bootable MSDOS floppy image from http://www.bootdisk.com/, save as msdos.img
4. Run qemu -fda msdos.img -hda /dev/sga -boot a
5. When MSDOS booted, in the DOS prompt execute format /s c:
6. The bootable disk is created on USB flash

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