Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-16 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net: On 2014-07-12 12:03 (GMT-0700) Dave Stevens composed: I need to make a bootable DOS disk and don't see how. I have a computer that needs a BIOS update. Instructions are to make a bootable DOZ diskette, boot from that, run the manufactorer's update

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-16 Thread Matej Horvat
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 19:37:28 +0200, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: I don't have a spare hard drive to use. I tried rufus and it ALMOST does what I want but seems to be set up to install freedos on a drive. No, it's not. Did you give it an ISO image? You can just choose Create a

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-16 Thread Felix Miata
On 2014-07-16 10:37 (GMT-0700) Dave Stevens composed: Changing diskettes to the one with the flash program and bios image fails for some reason when changing diskettes. Ideas? 1-configure a boot floppy with USB support 2-put the flash program and new BIOS file on a USB stick 3-try flashing

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Quoting Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net: On 2014-07-12 12:03 (GMT-0700) Dave Stevens composed: I need to make a bootable DOS disk and don't see how. I have a computer that needs a BIOS update. But! the smallest

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-16 Thread Bill Haught
You can get a 16GB flash drive at MaoMart, I mean Walmart, of course for US$12.97 (at least in Cleveland, OH). -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-16 Thread Bill Haught
USB drive, of course. On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 6:41 PM, Bill Haught wlhaughtpr...@att.net wrote: You can get a 16GB flash drive at MaoMart, I mean Walmart, of course for US$12.97 (at least in Cleveland, OH). --

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-16 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Bill Haught wlhaughtpr...@att.net wrote: You can get a 16GB flash drive at MaoMart, I mean Walmart, of course for US$12.97 (at least in Cleveland, OH). I got a 32GB Micro Center branded USB drive at their location in NYC for $15, and a 32GB Micro Center

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-12 Thread Felix Miata
On 2014-07-12 12:03 (GMT-0700) Dave Stevens composed: I need to make a bootable DOS disk and don't see how. I have a computer that needs a BIOS update. Instructions are to make a bootable DOZ diskette, boot from that, run the manufactorer's update program and the BIOS update will be copied

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-12 Thread dmccunney
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: I need to make a bootable DOS disk and don't see how. I have a computer that needs a BIOS update. Instructions are to make a bootable DOZ diskette, boot from that, run the manufactorer's update program and the BIOS update

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-12 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com: On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: I need to make a bootable DOS disk and don't see how. I have a computer that needs a BIOS update. Instructions are to make a bootable DOZ diskette, boot from that, run the

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-12 Thread Matej Horvat
On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 22:26:52 +0200, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Quoting dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com: Will your computer boot from USB? (This is normally a BIOS option, where you would select the USB device as the first thing to try to boot from.) If so, you might be able

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help?

2014-07-12 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Matej Horvat matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si: On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 22:26:52 +0200, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Quoting dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com: Will your computer boot from USB? (This is normally a BIOS option, where you would select the USB device as the first

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help: your time please :(

2005-09-24 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 11:19 +0200, Andre Tertling wrote: Gildor Inglorion wrote: i am using linux and i downloaded the .img bootdisk image from the download page. I don't know what to do with such file. I mounted it on a dir, then i mcpied its contents to a disk, but the disk couldn't

Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help: your time please :(

2005-09-22 Thread Ken Martwick
In Linux, you can insert a blank floppy in the first drive and issue the command: dd if=???.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880 from the comman line, where ???.img is replaced by the name of the img file you are using. Ken Martwick On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:59:26AM +0100, Gildor Inglorion wrote:

[Freedos-user] Θέμα: Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help: yo ur time please :(

2005-09-22 Thread Gildor Inglorion
Very kind of you, and Eric :) In Linux, you can insert a blank floppy in the first drive and issue the command: dd if=???.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880 from the comman line, where ???.img is replaced by the name of the img file you are using. Ken Martwick On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at