Re: Making a Bootable DOS USB Drive to Upgrade BIOS

If I don't make mistakes, the last time freedos has released a liveCD
was for 1.0

Quoted from the 1.1 release announcement:
"It might be considered as replacement for the current 'base-only' 1.0
distributions as created by Blair and Jeremy, however it's less
functional as it's missing the Live Environment part "

1.0:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/
Read the README

Hope this help.

++ fredg



2012/2/7 Rich Shepard <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Luca wrote:
>
>> I see 3 options here:
>>
>> 1- copy the .exe file to the USB stick: I'm pretty sure you can append
>> your .exe file to the stick
>
>
> Luca,
>
>  That's what I tried to do, but the file system is iso9660 and read only.
>
>
>> 2- mount the freedos iso, copy the .exe file on it, make the iso again
>> (mkisofs) and finally dd to the usb stick
>
>
>  Possible.
>
>
>> 3- burn the .exe file on a cdrom and use it via freedos (x:\>)
>
>
>  May be more practical to burn the .iso on a cd, boot that and reference
> the .exe on the USB flash drive.
>
>
>> If you really want to make DOS bootable on your laptop, you have to
>> install freedos on a primary partition (<- to be verified). You should
>> configure lilo to boot on it.
>
>
>  That's not what I want to do. I want to upgrade the BIOS. Period. Dell has
> firmware .hdr files for many other device IDs, but not for mine (0x0429).
> I'm calling Dell today to see if they'll provide me with the two .hdr files
> instead of the two .exe files. Then I can use dellBiosUpdate-compat to flash
> the firmware.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>
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