With the success I had with getting a bootable image of MFSTools onto my old 1GB USB stick, why not go all out.
My local Fry's has on sale Sony MicroVault USB sticks with a slide out connector.
I picked up a 4GB model for 37$ and am thinking a multi-boot setup with multiple partitions.
- MFSTools, for all my Tivo adventures.
- DOS6.2 with all my various boot tools, SpinRite, etc.
- Ultimate Boot Disk, with various OpenSource DOS's, plus some Linux stuff to, I believe.
- A BartPE Windows XP boot partition.
Anything else that might seem useful?
Niceties about the USB boot disk option:
- It's fast
- You don't have a reburn a DVD to make a change to the configuration
- The sizes are to a point now as to be actually useful
I probably won't toss my trusty DOS 6.2 boot floppies just yet, 'cause some of my machines can't boot to USB, but I suspect that will be changing over the next year or so.