Quoting Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net>: > On 2014-07-12 12:03 (GMT-0700) Dave Stevens composed: > >> I need to make a bootable DOS disk and don't see how. I have a >> computer that needs a BIOS update. Instructions are to make a bootable >> DOZ diskette, boot from that, run the manufactorer's update program >> and the BIOS update will be copied into the ROM. But! the smallest >> boot diskette I can make doesn't have enough room for the update >> program and the BIOS image. > > You don't need everything on one floppy. Put the BIOS image on a separate > floppy. After booting, switch floppies, then flash. > > You don't have to use a floppy. All you really need is any boot disk that > doesn't load drivers or other fluff into RAM during boot. If you have an > extra HD, create a small DOS partition on it, do format C: /S, put the flash > program and bios image on it, boot from it without any AUTOEXEC.BAT or > CONFIG.SYS, then flash.
I don't have a spare hard drive to use. I tried rufus and it ALMOST does what I want but seems to be set up to install freedos on a drive. I don't want that. I'd like to make a bootable USB flash drive that boots to an A: prompt with lots of space. Changing diskettes to the one with the flash program and bios image fails for some reason when changing diskettes. Ideas? Dave > -- > "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant > words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! > > Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to office -- Aesop ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
