Greetings! Yesterday, I did a lot of work aimed at making a bootable FreeDOS USB key. I looked through the FreeDOS website to find help for creating such a key. Others on this forum have kindly helped me with creating a bootable CD back in January; this time I wanted a bootable USB drive with FreeDOS. The specific reason is to allow flashing of an LSI SAS HBA controller card to what they call "IT Mode".
I would like to suggest that a link to making a bootable USB drive be put on the FreeDOS website -- specifically the home page. This would be a huge help to people like me. I ended up having to Google for instructions, and found a download for a FreeDOS 1.0 usb drive. Also confusing for me is that the description for the fd11src.iso on the Download page says specifically, " Install only, does not include LiveCD" but there is no mention of where a "LiveCD" download might be. You might want to put a link on the Download page to the LiveCD. I succeeded in flashing my LSI card with the help of FreeDOS. It turns out that LSI does support the SAS2FLASH utility on several operating systems, including FreeDOS 1.0. Also supported on several systems is the MegaCLI utility. I am not sure if the Megarec utility is likewise supported. It is possible I could have used SAS2FLASH on FreeBSD, but I also needed Megarec, and I could only find a DOS version of that. So I opted for using FreeDOS. I do hope that someone visiting the FreeDOS website will soon be able to find quick instructions for creating bootable USB drives in addition to the normal install directions. Thanks Bob Cochran ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
