On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Bernd Blaauw <bbla...@home.nl> wrote: > The problem ofcourse is getting a more powerful/modern operating system > on a internet-connected yet stand-alone machine. Resorting to making USB > sticks bootable (any 100% way to do so?) and testing them, or getting > SATA optical drives is such a burden.
If Linux counts as "a more powerful/modern" OS I yet haven't failed to make a bootable USB key. It may require some brute force like wiping the entire disk out with zeros and then start from scratch - partitioning, putting on a MBR, formatting and eventually put Syslinux on it. But for updating a BIOS (Free)DOS is fine unless you have one of those new fancy boards. Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user