Ultimate Boot CD Full 3.4

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives, Free yourself from the slow loading speed of the floppy drive, or Consolidate as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD.

The "Full" version of UBCD includes INSERT, a Linux distribution based on Knoppix.
After a long gap, Ultimate Boot CD Ver 3.4 is finally ready for download! There is the usual update of apps to their latest versions. Erwin Veermans has added a new feature on the FreeDOS bootdisk that allows you to update the virus database for F-Prot, McAfee and AVG over the network. A new expert mode has also been added (by pressing the [Ins] key at the menus) that allows you to choose which boot disk (FreeDOS, OpenDOS or MSDOS) to use when running certain apps if you encounter compatibility issues. For full details, please refer to Version History.

Since this is Valentine's Day, I would like to dedicate this release to my wife, who wants me to spend less time on my hobbies and more time with her. I am sorry honey, but absence makes the heart grows fonder. :-) Happy Valentines!

VERSION HERSTORY:
Disable RockRidge extension during mkisofs. Thanks to Eric for the suggestion.

Added expert mode for booting images. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for inspiring the feature in his dynamic scripts.

When you press [Ins] in any of the menus, an asterisk will appear at the bottom-left corner of the screen, indicating that you are in expert mode. Then when you launch any of the apps, a menu will appear that allows you to change the boot method (memdisk, diskemu, bcdw) or boot disk (fdubcd, drubcd, msubcd), subjected to availability. This is great for nailing down or working around compatibility issues without having to customize the UBCD image.

Note that MSUBCD.IMG is not included on the UBCD by default since it is based on MS-DOS, which is commercialware. If you want to use it, please download the boot image from Erwin's website and add it to your customized UBCD.

Updated FDUBCD, DRUBCD, FD32RDP, FSDMSRRC, FDNWD288, FDARA288 to V3.35. Thanks to Erwin Veermans for the update. NTFSDOS should now work on FDUBCD due to a FreeDOS kernel patch.

There is also a new feature under FDUBCD that allows you to update the latest virus database for F-Prot, McAfee and AVG if you are connected to the network. This is activated by typing ubcdvir at the command prompt.

How it works is that it copies the necessary files to the RAM disk, connects to the network, then downloads the latest virus database to the RAM disk. You also have the option of updating the executable files this way. For some reason, Avast cannot be run from the RAM disk, so this feature cannot be used with Avast.

F-Prot (EXE + DB) and McAfee (DB only) are always downloaded from source. McAfee (EXE only) and AVG (EXE + DB) must be downloaded from another location, since they require prior extraction and packaging into a ZIP file. By default, it points back to the files on this website, which I will try to maintain on a weekly basis.

If you want to host your own files, you should prepare and place the following files on your own web server, then type set UBCDURL=http://yoursite.com/pathtofiles before running ubcdvir.

You might also want to read up AutoVir: auto-updating AntiVirus Suite, an FAQ that Erwin Veermans has written on this topic.