Re: Making a Bootable DOS USB Drive to Upgrade BIOS

On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Frédéric Galusik wrote:

> Did you take a look in that folder ? ;)
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/3sep2006/

fredg,

   Yes, I did. I downloaded fdbasews.iso and fdboot.img. Using parted,
cfdisk, and /boot/initrd-tree/sbin/mkfs.vfat I created two partitions on the
USB flash drive: /dev/sdb1 (vfat32/10M) and /dev/sdb2 (vfat32 LBA/3.99G).

   On /dev/sdb1 I used dd to copy fdboot.img. Root mounted /dev/sdb2 and
copied the two .exe files to it.

   Next is testing (probably tomorrow as I need to get client work done the
rest of today) and the telco is changing our IP addresses from static to
DHCP and blocking outgoing port 25 even though they're not our ISP. May
take a while to get mail working again. Sigh.

Thanks,

Rich