If you Google "create a bootable USB drive in Linux" most of the returns you get will tell you to use Rufus for Windows or for Linux. The problem is that Mageia no longer provides unetbootin and instead provides their own tool, IsoDumper . Still in development, IsoDumper can only save a disk image of the existing files, write an image file to the USB device, or format the USB device with a FAT, NTFS or EXT filesystem. It would be nice if Mageia provided a bootable FreeDOS image for you so that you could easily do BIOS and firmware updates since Linux has yet to produce a usable tool for that. It's always good to know how to do that from the command line if the GUI tools are not available, so that's what we will do. FREEDOS You can get a USB image containing FreeDOS from this site . There are three different images depending on the size of your USB stick. Mine is 2GB, so I could choose either of the first two. I chose the second image. NOTE: That site ...
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