Hello Bernd, Thank you so much for all your help with this. I need to practice the steps you list here, and I will start experimenting over the next few weeks. I really appreciate your taking the time to help me. I will try your method very soon on another device that could be flashed -- it is not a mainboard but a PCI Express adapter card.
I vaguely remember searching for an ASPI driver in some context from a long time ago, I was helping my wife with something to do with her quite old computer. Bob On 1/17/12 6:22 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 18-1-2012 0:04, Bob Cochran schreef: >> Thanks everyone for all the responses. I guess there is not a how-to for >> creating a bootable FreeDOS CD? That is, it takes fiddling and >> experimentation and a successful method has not been posted to the >> FreeDOS wiki? The point of greatest interest is what files are needed on >> the CD, exactly (including all their dependencies...so if command.com >> has dependencies, I'd need to include those.) Also how exactly to make >> the CD bootable in a "FreeDOS acceptable" way. > Everything depends on what you want. Direct floppy emulation is the > easiest, many Windows CD-writing programs support that (Imgburn for > example). > > 1) Download a bootable floppy image (MSDOS or FreeDOS) > 2) Open in WinImage, change size to 2.88MB or leave at 1.44MB > 3) Delete all contents besides kernel.sys and command.com. > 4) Insert flasher program and the BIOS file (if it even fits anymore on > floppy nowadays). > 5) Add an autoexec.bat that executes the flash program. Only if you're > absolutely sure though and want to automate. This can ruin systems if > things go wrong! > 6) Save the image > 7) Open Imgburn, Nero or whatever, create a bootable CD and supply the > floppy image file you saved in step 6. > > My own requirements for FreeDOS CD go a lot further with regard to > bootloader, floppy contents, detecting CD contents, executing it etc. > Slightly more complex, I'm afraid. > >> I really would like to be able to create such a CD and get the BIOS up >> to date. > See if any of the various responses are enough to help you out. A > bootdisk can generally be obtained from www.bootdisk.img (but those > images are executables with WinImage compression, so you need to open > WinImage, then select to open an image and look for your saved floppy > image file) > >> I deeply appreciate advice on how to really do it. I will fiddle with >> Alain's suggestion, I did something close to that a few months ago in a >> very similar effort but evidently missed some important step. > Goodluck doing so. I'm working on creating a remaster ability in FreeDOS > which has limited use because there's most CD-recording software in DOS > is Linux-based and thus depends on something called ASPI, for which only > paid legal solutions exist. > >> Bob > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
