had to do this last week on a dell something or other.... after way too much failed trial-and-error, here is what i did: $ bunzip2 Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img.bz2 $ sudo dd if=Downloads/FreeDOS-1.1-USB-Boot.img of=/dev/sdb * unplug/plug * $ cp Downloads/O380-A07.exe /media/FREEDOS1~1A/ * reboot * steven tardy