Upgrading BIOS?

miah jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com
Tue Nov 23 01:08:53 EST 2004


On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 02:19:28PM +0900, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:53:21PM -0500, miah wrote:
> That's only a half-answer, since Rob stated he doesn't have a floppy
> drive in the system.

Doh, I somehow missed that =)

> The rest of the answer is that yes, it should be possible to create a
> bootable CD with a DOS boot image on it (at least I think so).  I
> haven't done this myself, but mkisofs -b <bootable_floppy_image_file>
> should basically do the trick for you.
> 
> For more details, see the man page for mkisofs, and probably also of
> help would be the CD recording howto. Any decent web search engine
> should turn up an appropriate link quickly...

It is..

http://www.bootdisk.com/shelly/flashcd.zip

www.bootdisk.com is really useful they have links to all sorts of boot
floppies.

-miah



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