Galen Seitz wrote:
> 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 This is probably a bit out of date, but this old discussion might be 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

Yup there it was.  Right in my Save->PLUG->2006 IMAP folder.  Too bad I 
didn't think to search before I asked. :-)


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Rod
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