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Pete Batard Rufus(Reliable USB Formatting Utility with Src) (Announce)

posted by Arjay, 14.10.2012, 12:16
(edited by Arjay on 14.10.2012, 13:38)

>> * r1697 from Pete Batard, do not display CHS mismatch warning
>> during booting when forcing LBA mode option set
> Rufus "DOS-on-USB-installer" dude, basically shutting up some scary
> warnings.

I think you mean Pete Batard as in "Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility with Source" dude. DOS-on-USB is a different project including copyrighted files (which I won't link to). Importantly "From version 1.2.0 (2012.06.04), a single version of Rufus is provided, that includes FreeDOS support." (works well IMHO).

I came across Rufus the other day after deciding to revisit what Windows USB boot disk creators exist, not only for my occasional Windows usage but also in terms of wanting a well written tool that I could point people to and say "use that". I believe that in Rufus that I have found just what I was seeking (I am still testing). Sure many other options exist such as UNetbootin which works well. However regarding the existing options I either have copyright concerns or in the case of UNetbootin technical dislikes, e.g UNetbootin works by always needing to use syslinux. Rufus doesn't appear to have any legal issues or unnecessary syslinux requirements.

Pete gave the background to Rufus in the following blog post: Rufus - The bootable USB Formatting Utility

The rest of Pete Batard's blog is also interesting reading for the technically minded. See also Akeo Consulting's homepage.

[EDIT]
I meant to add that when using Rufus that if you click the down arrow next to formatting options that you can easily set the BIOS ID. Pete covers the why and technical how in this blog post: Crafting an MBR from scratch
See also Rufus (introduction topic) which has a screenshot and extra technical background from Pete (Akeo).
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Complete thread:

• FreeDOS 1.1 is released! - Rugxulo, 05.01.2012, 08:42
  • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - DOS386, 19.02.2012, 11:54
    • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - RayeR, 19.02.2012, 17:39
      • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - Rugxulo, 19.02.2012, 20:42
        • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - RayeR, 20.02.2012, 04:56
          • FDK build 2041, >512B sector support preparations - ecm, 20.02.2012, 23:45
            • FDK build 2041, >512B sector support preparations - RayeR, 21.02.2012, 06:09
              • FDK build 2041, >512B sector support preparations - ecm, 21.02.2012, 06:15
          • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - mbbrutman, 22.02.2012, 04:10
            • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - ecm, 22.02.2012, 22:43
              • FreeDOS 1.1 is released | KERNEL 2041 released 2012-02-07 - mbbrutman, 23.02.2012, 05:26
        • Pete Batard Rufus(Reliable USB Formatting Utility with Src) - Arjay, 14.10.2012, 12:16
      • FDK build 2041, >512B sector support preparations - ecm, 20.02.2012, 23:37