On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:32:13PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I'm stuck... I need a bootable DOS floppy (for BIOS upgrade) to fix a > broken Windows box. > > I have no problem formatting and putting an msdosfs on a floppy but it > appears I cannot make it bootable with native tools.
I've used FreeDOS [http://www.freedos.org/] to run utilities for flashing a motherboard bios. The technique I used was to build a FreeDOS bootable CD with the extra stuff I needed on it. That enabled me to run the utilities. Roland -- R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt
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