Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

Jason L. Ellison infotek at datasync.com
Thu May 25 13:46:05 PDT 2006


Svein,

  I had a situation with needing to boot into dos to flash firmware.  I
booted using a Freedos CD with my utilities on the same CD.  I think I had
to create a RAM drive to use the firmware upgrade utility.

-Jason Ellison

On Thu, 25 May 2006, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote:
> Adrian Pavone wrote:
> > What about using 2 floppies? The first, your FreeDOS disk, to boot from=
> ,
> > then, once booted, change to the disk you have put the BIOS executable =
> on?
>
> I don't have a floppy drive. I don't think I've even seen a floppy disk
> in several years, much less used one.
>
>
> 	Svein Halvor
>


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