Blimey you two, I have been bombarded with lots of info and questions. Here goes:
Full spec of laptop here: https://www.comx-computers.co.za/laptop-specification-sheet.php?laptop=40065 I have used ReactOS in a virtual environment. So I have downloaded the live CD ISO burnt it to a DVD and booted from it. It got far into the process but is stuck at "Installing devices". This looked promising. If it had booted all the way to desktop I was going to insert the memory stick onto which I had copied the BIOS upgrade programme. But alas, alack it is not to be. As a best guess would putting ReactOS onto a memory stick overcome this problem? Before I progress to Liam's options is there any other option you can think of. Thanks and wait to hear Stephanos On 09/04/2021 13:39, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote:
Ditch the memory stick even if you can do this from inside DOSBOX directly on top of Linux. It's worth a shot even if you have to swap in MS-DOS 6.22 temporarily or Windows 98SE DOS prompt temporarily in DOSBOX. If you can do this from within DOSBOX, you don't have to go get any media you may not already have and you avoid burning a CD-R as well. Please ignore Liam, he obviously has an issue with me. If you need an equivalent to Windows XP that is completely legal to use but not yet a Beta, ReactOS is having memory management problems still, you may need a ReactOS LiveCD ISO image and you probably do NOT need to burn the ISO to a CD at all. You can use a USB flash drive or you can absolutely use a CD-R, if you want to. The ReactOS web site has information on how to put an image on either a CD-R or a Flash drive. You may need a program called Rufus for a Windows environment to put a ReactOS live CD image on a flash drive. I also recommend Deepburner1.exe if you need it, which is free as long as you don't use the pro version. For that matter, use your favorite open source burning program on the Linux system you have on that laptop and you definitely want to use the burner in that laptop so that the CD reads in that laptop. http://www.reactos.org You probably don't need anything other than a FreeDOS 1.0 boot disk image to get your update done, that much is true. I wouldn't go that old and I wouldn't rule out doing this from DOSBOX directly on top of Linux either. This old DELL has a real BIOS, so I would highly suspect that you can update it from inside DOSBOX runing on top of Linux. I recommend that you try FreeDOS 1.1 or FreeDOS 1.2 first in DOSBOX. As far as can you emulate on this latop without dedicated emulation hardware, you can use VMWARE workstation version 5 or earlier. You might be able to use QEMU. Maybe Bochs will work. Note that you should be able to grab a VMWARE image from ReactOS.org saving you from needing to have a VMWARE workstation license for an ancient version of VMWARE which costs money. I am overly dependent on VirtualBox myself. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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