Re: [Freedos-user] upgrading bios with freedos

2010-01-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, yes, fdbasecd is enough. Actually everything which boots DOS at all is enough, as you already have the BIOS update tool and the new BIOS at another location. However, you have to put those files on a FAT partition or floppy or similar, because DOS does not support NTFS or USB out of the box. Y

[Freedos-user] Upgrading BIOS.

2010-01-27 Thread amka
Hi everyone, I have to upgrade a BIOS on my comuter, I have an old motherboard : TYAN Tiger K8W (S2875). If I have good understood, I have to : 1. Start my computer with the freeDOS CD : is 'fdbasecd' enough ? 2. Run the .bat file for the BIOS upgrade. Tyan gives, for my motherboard :

Re: [Freedos-user] bzip2 for FreeDOS.

2010-01-27 Thread dos386
> have use FreeDOS with doslfn Try without DOSLFN > 1) Replace 'fake' cwsdpmi.exe with the one from There is nothing evil about the "fake" cwsdpmi.exe ;-) Also, you should post / have posted your BZIP2 and FreeDOS version just at start, and from what piracy page you downloaded them. IIRC it u