[gentoo-user] Maybe OT; Ways of creating dos bootdisk?

2005-02-20 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I'm in need of updating my scsi dvd-drive (pioneer 305S) with a new firmware. The flash updater needs to be run from dos but the suggested bootdisk is a windows millenium bootdisk for my scsi card driver. The .exe file that creates the bootdisk is a gui program, thus needing window env.

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT; Ways of creating dos bootdisk?

2005-02-20 Thread Dirk Raeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Karlsson wrote: Hi! I'm in need of updating my scsi dvd-drive (pioneer 305S) with a new firmware. The flash updater needs to be run from dos but the suggested bootdisk is a windows millenium bootdisk for my scsi card driver. The .exe file

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT; Ways of creating dos bootdisk?

2005-02-20 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Dirk Raeder wrote: I had no trouble accessing my dvd-drive from within wine. Did you create a symlink from /dev/floppy to your wine-directory where all other drives are symlinked? That should do the trick. Nope, doesn't seem to work for me. I get a small error window that

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT; Ways of creating dos bootdisk?

2005-02-20 Thread Tom Wesley
Peter Karlsson wrote: Hi! I'm in need of updating my scsi dvd-drive (pioneer 305S) with a new firmware. The flash updater needs to be run from dos but the suggested bootdisk is a windows millenium bootdisk for my scsi card driver. The .exe file that creates the bootdisk is a gui program, thus

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT; Ways of creating dos bootdisk?

2005-02-20 Thread Tom Wesley
Tom Wesley wrote: Peter Karlsson wrote: Hi! I'm in need of updating my scsi dvd-drive (pioneer 305S) with a new firmware. The flash updater needs to be run from dos but the suggested bootdisk is a windows millenium bootdisk for my scsi card driver. The .exe file that creates the bootdisk is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT; Ways of creating dos bootdisk?

2005-02-20 Thread Nathan Pinkerton
or... you could use the Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) it has DOS utilities on it (as well as a host of other things) On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:25:36 +, Tom Wesley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Wesley wrote: Peter Karlsson wrote: Hi! I'm in need of updating my scsi

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT; Ways of creating dos bootdisk?

2005-02-20 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Nathan Pinkerton wrote: or... you could use the Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/) it has DOS utilities on it (as well as a host of other things) Thanks, but I can't use a boot cd since the instructions for flashing specifically states that there shouldn't be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe OT; Ways of creating dos bootdisk?

2005-02-20 Thread Peter Karlsson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005, Tom Wesley wrote: Actually never mind wine, there are image files there that can be written with dd. Thanks, I'll try these but they unfortunately don't seem to contain scsi drivers... Oh, well, why make things easy? ;-) Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org