Bootable disc image files may contain all the data necessary to create a disc from which computers can boot, but if you want them to work, you can't just burn them to a disc the way you would regular ...

Like Lion (OS X 10.7) before it, Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) doesn’t ship on a disc—it’s available only as an installer app downloadable from the Mac App Store ...

It's easy to make boot disks on old Macs for older hardware, but as the years have gone on, it's gotten a little more difficult. Here's how to make classic Mac OS 9 and early Mac OS X boot media on ...

Hi,<BR><BR>Downloaded the new Fedora core test release. It installs fine but since I don't want it to install GRUB on the MBR I had it install on the partition.<BR><BR>In older versions of Red Hat it ...

Apple has released Mac OS X Lion in the Mac App Store for $30. Separately, Apple will also begin offering Lion on a USB thumb drive in Apple stores come August. Right now, you can grab Lion from the ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

[Editor’s note: This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to Lion (OS X 10.7). We also have a complete guide to installing and upgrading to Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).] ...

When your small business creates a bootable disk for its Mac computers from ISO disk images, there's a difference between an ISO file and the disk image it contains. If you burn the file to a blank ...

i think you'd have to set it up to be a boot drive in the bios. but i'm not really sure, as i don't run beos ...

When your PC stops booting, a boot drive is the electronic version of a defibrillator. If you can boot your PC, you can detect bad memory, chase bad sectors, change ...

Using a Windows XP upgrade CD The Boot Camp installation instructions claim that a valid full Windows XP SP2 disc is required and that upgrade discs cannot be used ...

Here is a question from reader Danny. “I have XP Pro installed at the moment and I would like to format my hard drive so that I can install 2000. Apart from hooking my drive up as a slave to another ...