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I wish they would make an official USB boot image.

USB booting in general is best done more reliably than an official image will allow.

Also more simply & reliably than the freedos link outlines.

Those instructions says to use the “Odin” floppy disk image, which is a third-party project which was last updated in 2005.

Rufus, the recommended Ubuntu USB creator can build FreeDOS sticks too.

I thought Rufus was a Windows program you had run on Windows? I would really prefer an image file.

Very little if anything about booting DOS from usb has changed. U/EFI is about it and that usually rules out DOS.

But the FreeDOS project does not publish anything which can take the place of the Odin floppy image.

Not true. The FD 1.2 betas have been available as usb images for months [0].