DOS boot disk (for flashing BIOS)?

Richard E Miles r.godzilla at comcast.net
Fri Dec 17 21:28:54 UTC 2004


On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:21:34 -0500 (EST)
fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:

> How do I make a DOS boot disk to flash my BIOS?  Also, the flash files are
> packed in a .exe file (a self extracting executable, I imagine).  How do I
> unpack that in Linux?
> 
> I've always had a Windows machine handy, so this situation never arose till
> now.
> 
> Thanks for the help

Google for freedos.
Download the iso.
According to the docs you should be able to run freedos from the cd. I hav'nt
tried this myself. I did download the iso in case I have to use a DOS OS.
If this works, let us know.

-- 
Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA.
registered linux user 46097




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