On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Gustavo J Mata <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to update the BIOS of a computer with Ubuntu Linux installed. I own a
> second computer, an iMac running OS X 10.6.
>
> To the iMac I have  downloaded both the BIOS updater and the  fdfullcd.iso
> image.  What I want  to do is create a bootable freedos CD with the BIOS
> updater in it.
>
> How do I do this?
>
> I'd prefer to use the iMac for this, but I could also use the Ubuntu
> machine.

Ubuntu solution: Get the Balder floppy image of FreeDOS:

mount -t vfat -o loop balder10.img superfloppy
Add the imagewriter and the image in the superfloppy folder
umount superfloppy
mkisofs -o superfloppy.iso -b balder10.img balder10.img
Burn the iso.

Mike

> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gustavo J. Mata

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