On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:59:52PM -0600, Doran L. Fozz Barton wrote: > On Thursday 26 March 2009 09:46:41 Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote:
> The problem with a lot of motherboard BIOS updates is that they require a > DOS/Windows boot diskette. This can be replaced with a USB stick-drive if > your > current BIOS will boot to a USB drive. For people like me that don't keep > DOS/Windows around for formatting these kinds of things, I've found several > sites that feature Windows 98 boot diskette images. These contain all the > files > you need (command.com, etc.) to boot off the disk. There is also FreeDOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS A useful tool for building custom bootable USB media is http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ I believe it supports FreeDOS. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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