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From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: Creating bootable DOS floppy w/FreeBSD
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:32:13PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> I'm stuck... I need a bootable DOS floppy (for BIOS upgrade) to fix a
> broken Windows box. =20
>=20
> I have no problem formatting and putting an msdosfs on a floppy but it
> appears I cannot make it bootable with native tools.

I've used FreeDOS [http://www.freedos.org/] to run utilities for
flashing a motherboard bios.

The technique I used was to build a FreeDOS bootable CD with the extra
stuff I needed on it. That enabled me to run the utilities.

Roland
--=20
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