On 2014-07-16 10:37 (GMT-0700) Dave Stevens composed: > Changing diskettes to the one with the flash program and bios image > fails for some reason when changing diskettes.
> Ideas? 1-configure a boot floppy with USB support 2-put the flash program and new BIOS file on a USB stick 3-try flashing immediately after boot by prepending drive letter to flash program That may not work if the flash program isn't smart enough to find the BIOS binary on the non-current drive, in which case: 4-add command.com to the USB stick 5-boot the floppy 6-change to the drive letter allocated to the USB stick 7-flash Another alternative: old floppy drives and dual drive cables are in virtually every small shop that fixes puters. Put a second one on the cable to put the #2 floppy in. That's how PCs were used before HDs for PCs existed. Also, old shops tend to have old small HDs nobody wants they will sell dirt cheap or give away. With a PATA to SATA converter one of those with a small FAT primary partition containing only boot and flash files could be used even for a brand new puter. Similar goes for ZIP drives, where you could put the flash files instead of on a second floppy. -- "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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
