Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:07:33 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating bootable DOS floppy w/FreeBSD Message-ID: <20051116200733.GA39156@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20051116183213.GA32134@polands.org> References: <20051116183213.GA32134@polands.org>
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--Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDe5GFEnfvsMMhpyURAsIdAJ9ZLNV4YycP40B12/qHRXngVzPCJgCfYbjI aLl+PziSzIJk36Qc2vNjOH0= =kakY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Dxnq1zWXvFF0Q93v--
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