inserting the file you want in the image is an option, if it fits... The "normal" way is to create a floppy with a CD driver, test it, use it a boot image and write the files as normal CD content. After boot the cd driver will have been loaded and the CD content will be available as D: (or whatever <x>:)
Alain Em 19-07-2010 18:01, Jonathan B. Horen escreveu: > Of all the crazy things in the world... > > I've got a Silicon Mechanics storage unit, with nineteen 2TB WD drives > that need to have their firmware updated, and I've got the update: yup, > an MSDOS executable file. The storage unit, itself, runs a modified > version of Linux, with the 2.6.27 kernel, from Open-E. > > I thought about booting the SM unit from FreeDOS on a USB thumb drive, > but the 3ware RAID card is in the way :( > > So, I burned the FreeDOS/1.0 image onto a CDROM on a spare cluster node > (after first pulling the node's hard drive and replacing it with one of > the storage unit's RAID drives) -- worked fine. However, I found that > FreeDOS/1.0 doesn't support USB (other than as boot devices) :( > > How to access and run the disk-firmware update executable? > > I thought about patching the FreeDOS/1.0 image (that is, including the > firmware-update executable so that it will be available after booting), > but I have no idea how to do it. > > Advice? Suggestions? Instructions? > > I'm listening... > > -- > JONATHAN B. HOREN > Systems Administrator > UAF Life Science Informatics > Center for Research Services > (907) 474-2742 > jbho...@alaska.edu <mailto:jbho...@alaska.edu> > http://biotech.inbre.alaska.edu > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
