Dear Christopher Thanks. I am still absorbing the information from the others but here are a few additional questions 1) I have WINE on my laptop and run several MS applications. Is it safe to treat the BIOS upgrade file as an application and run it in WINE? 2) I could install DOS Box, which is new to me, I have the same question, is it safe? 3) Is running a version of Windows, 7 perhaps, in VMWare, and then executing the BIOS upgrade file feasible and safe.
These 3 are appealing options if they are feasible and safe? If I cannot do above and cannot get my head around burning images to memory stick, then I will revert to removing Kubuntu, installing Win 7, running the BIOS upgrade file, praying. Wait to hear Stephanos On 09/04/2021 16:09, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote:
I would definitely try booting the ReactOS Live image a flash drive instead of a DVD. Longer term, you may want to install vmware player, free by the way, and grab the vmware image for it from the ReactOS web site. You and I both Stefano are overly dependent on Virtualbox which is not very usable these days and hardly the best option if you are trying to run any DOS based system. Oracle officially dropped support a while back for Windows 98SE and Windows Millenium. If all you want to run is some kind of DOS and you don't need Windows at all, please study DOSBOX and maybe look into WINE as well. I am going to do some research into Kubuntu now to try and help you better if you still need help getting the BIOS updated ;-) ----------------------------------------- From: "Stephanos" To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Sent: Friday April 9 2021 8:31:31AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Using a USB stick and an optical drive Blimey you two, I have been bombarded with lots of info and questions. Here goes: Full spec of laptop here: https://www.comx-computers.co.za/laptop-specification-sheet.php?laptop=40065 /> I have used ReactOS in a virtual environment. So I have downloaded the live CD ISO burnt it to a DVD and booted from it. It got far into the process but is stuck at "Installing devices". This looked promising. If it had booted all the way to desktop I was going to insert the memory stick onto which I had copied the BIOS upgrade programme. But alas, alack it is not to be. As a best guess would putting ReactOS onto a memory stick overcome this problem? Before I progress to Liam's options is there any other option you can think of. Thanks and wait to hear Stephanos On 09/04/2021 13:39, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > Ditch the memory stick even if you can do this from inside DOSBOX > directly on top of Linux. It's worth a shot even if you have to swap in > MS-DOS 6.22 temporarily or Windows 98SE DOS prompt temporarily in > DOSBOX. If you can do this from within DOSBOX, you don't have to go get > any media you may not already have and you avoid burning a CD-R as well. > > Please ignore Liam, he obviously has an issue with me. If you need an > equivalent to Windows XP that is completely legal to use but not yet a > Beta, ReactOS is having memory management problems still, you may need a > ReactOS LiveCD ISO image and you probably do NOT need to burn the ISO to > a CD at all. You can use a USB flash drive or you can absolutely use a > CD-R, if you want to. The ReactOS web site has information on how to > put an image on either a CD-R or a Flash drive. > > You may need a program called Rufus for a Windows environment to put a > ReactOS live CD image on a flash drive. I also recommend > Deepburner1.exe if you need it, which is free as long as you don't use > the pro version. For that matter, use your favorite open source burning > program on the Linux system you have on that laptop and you definitely > want to use the burner in that laptop so that the CD reads in that laptop. > > <https://www.comx-computers.co.za/laptop-specification-sheet.php?laptop=40065%3Cbr> http://www.reactos.org <http://www.reactos.org> > > You probably don't need anything other than a FreeDOS 1.0 boot disk > image to get your update done, that much is true. I wouldn't go that > old and I wouldn't rule out doing this from DOSBOX directly on top of > Linux either. This old DELL has a real BIOS, so I would highly suspect > that you can update it from inside DOSBOX runing on top of Linux. I > recommend that you try FreeDOS 1.1 or FreeDOS 1.2 first in DOSBOX. > > As far as can you emulate on this latop without dedicated emulation > hardware, you can use VMWARE workstation version 5 or earlier. You > might be able to use QEMU. Maybe Bochs will work. Note that you should > be able to grab a VMWARE image from ReactOS.org saving you from needing > to have a VMWARE workstation license for an ancient version of VMWARE > which costs money. I am overly dependent on VirtualBox myself. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user /> > _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user%3Cbr> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user /> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user%3Cbr> _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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