I would definitely try booting the ReactOS Live image a flash drive
instead of a DVD. Longer term, you may want to install vmware player,
free by the way, and grab the vmware image for it from the ReactOS web
site. You and I both Stefano are overly dependent on Virtualbox which
is not very usable these days and hardly the best option if you are
trying to run any DOS based system. Oracle officially dropped support
a while back for Windows 98SE and Windows Millenium. If all you want
to run is some kind of DOS and you don't need Windows at all, please
study DOSBOX and maybe look into WINE as well. I am going to do some
research into Kubuntu now to try and help you better if you still need
help getting the BIOS updated ;-)
-----------------------------------------From: "Stephanos"
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc:
Sent: Friday April 9 2021 8:31:31AM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Using a USB stick and an optical drive
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 [1]
>
> 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.
>
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