Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

2012-01-17 Thread Bob Cochran
Hello Bernd, Thank you so much for all your help with this. I need to practice the steps you list here, and I will start experimenting over the next few weeks. I really appreciate your taking the time to help me. I will try your method very soon on another device that could be flashed -- it is

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

2012-01-17 Thread Alain Mouette
Well, what I want is to make a bootable SD-card with that same image... It is a standard isolinux image. Has anyone made that? Thanks, Alain Em 17-01-2012 22:49, Rugxulo escreveu: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >> Op 17-1-2012 7:15, Rugxulo schreef: >> >>> You

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

2012-01-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 18-1-2012 1:49, Rugxulo schreef: > http://www.fysnet.net/mtools.htm That's a *very* interesting link, thanks!. Bedtime now though. I wish DISKCOPY was able to handle different floppy image sizes (360KB.IMG to 1.44MB floppy for example, or backup a (SHSURDRV?) harddisk image uncompressed). Ki

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

2012-01-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 17-1-2012 7:15, Rugxulo schreef: > >> You can convert an existing bootable DOS floppy image into a .iso for >> burning to CD with the following (DOS) freeware tool: >> >> http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/mkbiso.zip > > Does

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

2012-01-17 Thread Alain Mouette
Have you seen my mesage from *today* 5:27pm (gmt-2) Alain Em 17-01-2012 21:04, Bob Cochran escreveu: > Thanks everyone for all the responses. I guess there is not a how-to for > creating a bootable FreeDOS CD? That is, it takes fiddling and > experimentation and a successful method has not been p

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

2012-01-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 18-1-2012 0:04, Bob Cochran schreef: > Thanks everyone for all the responses. I guess there is not a how-to for > creating a bootable FreeDOS CD? That is, it takes fiddling and > experimentation and a successful method has not been posted to the > FreeDOS wiki? The point of greatest interest is

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

2012-01-17 Thread Bob Cochran
Thanks everyone for all the responses. I guess there is not a how-to for creating a bootable FreeDOS CD? That is, it takes fiddling and experimentation and a successful method has not been posted to the FreeDOS wiki? The point of greatest interest is what files are needed on the CD, exactly (in

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

2012-01-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 17-1-2012 7:15, Rugxulo schreef: > You can convert an existing bootable DOS floppy image into a .iso for > burning to CD with the following (DOS) freeware tool: > > http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/mkbiso.zip Does this work for any size floppy image or only 1.44MB? In principle BIOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

2012-01-16 Thread TJ Edmister
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:51:36 -0500, Bob Cochran wrote: > Hi, > > I have an MSI brand motherboard which I need to flash to the latest > BIOS. However, all my systems run Linux or *nix; I do not have a > Microsoft Windows-based system for creating a bootable floppy. MSI seems > to require a Windo

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

2012-01-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Bob Cochran wrote: > > I have an MSI brand motherboard which I need to flash to the latest > BIOS. However, all my systems run Linux or *nix; I do not have a > Microsoft Windows-based system for creating a bootable floppy. MSI seems > to require a Windows or D

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS CD or USB Drive for Flashing Motherboard BIOS

2012-01-16 Thread jhall
Hi. Others have created a BIOS-flashing FreeDOS floppy, so I know it can be done. Might be easiest to create a bootable USB flash fob drive, and boot from that with your BIOS flashing software. Be aware that USB drives often get recognized on DOS as the c: drive, through legacy mapping. jh O