One of the convenient features in early versions of Windows (yes, Windows) was the ability to easily create an MS-DOS boot disk out of any floppy disk, which could then be used to troubleshoot ...

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 ...

I don't know what Fedora version you mean exactly, but up to Fedora 1, you could use "/sbin/mkbootdisk", as root, to create a booting floppy disk.

You can make a bootable MS-DOS disk using the utilities built into Windows XP. Alternatively, you can create an image of the Windows XP files to use as a bootable disk.

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 ...

To create a bootable optical disc (or, similarly, a bootable Zip or floppy disk) was a bit more involved, but not by much. So how does all of this compare to the situation with Mac OS X today?

How to create a bootable, backup Mountain Lion install disk Need to install Mountain Lion on multiple Macs? Here's how to do it.

We've written at length about how to create a bootable installer for Lion (OS X 10.7). Lion DiskMaker simplifies the process.

If you need a boot disk that contains FDISK and FORMAT, you can create one on a computer running Windows 98. As an alternative, you could create a free (and legal) boot disk using FreeDOS.