this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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Last week for me. I burned a FreeDOS 1.4 CD to install it on my recently acquired Pentium 4 desktop.
I mean, I'd have still used a thumb drive at this point. I/O is way better.
I am not sure if old P4 machines have the BIOS support for USB booting. I know newer chipsets will.
A lot of retro PC people use drive emulators you slot an SD card loaded with images files in. E.g. PicoIDE
I have a newer P4 machine and it supports USB boot
I have an older i7 that does not
I guess it depends more on the bios
Plop go brrr. I used it on my windows me laptopto install Damn small Linux