chris (fool) mccraw wrote: > like i said above--this is a kind of crippled image. if you know what > you need to do you're fine, but it lacks even the 'copy con' ability > to print a text file, much less run rename (ren). > > my bios update was a batch file that literally renamed a .sys file to > a .exe and ran it with some flags, but the 'ren' command wasn't found > and i couldn't read the batch file on the machine to figure out what > went wrong... > > while there are other freedos images that have more commands, i could > not find one larger than 2.44MByte that i could modify usefully. i > was probably just doing it wrong, but after a few rounds of unetbootin > and downloading i decided to just ask the lazyweb and found someone > who could help. (actually lots of someones, but all of the other > instructions i could find needed legacy grub that i was unwilling to > install, since it wanted to remove the new grub to do so!)
This is probably a bit out of date, but this old discussion might be useful. "creating a bootable FreeDOS USB flash drive" http://lists.pdxlinux.org/pipermail/plug/2006-August/049545.html -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
