Hi Kevin, the point was that if you have a modern BIOS, it will just look for a data file on a FAT-formatted USB stick and then update *itself* - You do NOT have to boot any DOS from the stick to do that. Of course you can exit the setup of FreeDOS 1.0 or 1.2 or skip entering it.
Trying to follow the "flashing BIOS" instructions for cases when you had to use old DOS executables as flash tool might be a waste of effort with more modern BIOS. Please check whether your BIOS really wants to run a DOS exe file for anything. More likely, it does not. If your BIOS just needs a data file, then you do NOT have to install any DOS on the stick at all. Simply make sure that the stick is FAT formatted and not NTFS or ExFAT formatted, then copy your BIOS data to the stick and let the BIOS do the rest at boot. Cheers, Eric PS: You could use GPARTED to check and modify which filesystem your stick uses, with user-friendly GUI. Just make sure to write the stick, not OTHER disks. PPS: IF you find out that you really want to run DOS executables, you can install a boot floppy image on a stick instead of using entire DOS distro images. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
