Re: bios update from cdrom
I thought I had this figured out but I need more help.
I have download a number of floppy images, all of the images are
full and I cannot add my bios update files to them.
Since I don't need a full boot disk I took the freedos disk and
removed almost everything from it and added just the stuff I need,
but it wouldn't boot.
I thought I could make a 288 floppy image to boot from and then
copy the 144 image onto it and have plenty of extra room, but I
can't find any utility for making a msdos filesystem from linux.
freedos also had a bootable iso image but I couldn't figure out how
it worked well enough to un-iso it, add my 2 files, and re-iso it.
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 11:32:57PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> Hall Stevenson wrote:
>
> >* Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org) [020817 20:31]:
> >
> >
> >>On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 05:14:29PM -0700, Michael West wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:11:38AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 03:17:17PM -0700, Michael West wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> I do not have a floppy drive and have not felt the need for one
> >>>>> until now.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> How to I update my bios without a floppy? Can I use El Torito for
> >>>>> this? My current bios supports El Torito (SP?)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>That's how I did it when the kids machine lacked a floppy, I put a Win85
> >>>>boot floppy on CD. You can even use 2.88Meg floppy images.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Any idea where I can get a Win85 (sic) floppy image?
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >Got any friends... that run any variation of Windows ??
> >
> >
> >
> >>The last time I had to do this, I used a FreeDOS boot floppy, and it ran
> >>the BIOS update program fine. Try googling for "FreeDOS boot floppy" and
> >>you should be able to find some pre-built ones - the third hit (for
> >>XOSL) looks good, although I forget where I got the version I used.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >FreeDOS has a website here, http://www.freedos.org/. I found boot floppy
> >images linked here,
> >http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/beta8/instdisk/1.44/.
> >
> Or just go to www.bootdisk.com. They've got more boot images than you
> can shake a stick at. :) And lots of CD boot images as well. (They've
> even got debian boot disks. :)
>
> -Alex
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