Re: bios update from cdrom
An addendum. Is there a way I can use the exe boot floppy images
from linux?
If so, then my choice of boot images would be greatly increased.
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 06:02:16PM -0700, Michael West wrote:
> 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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