Ta for the mkfs, I knew I was missing something.
The PC was in an office that I didn't control, Ubuntu, and gparted iso's
booted happily, and the only good DOS boot isos that I could get my hands
on were all 1.44Mb ... fdos.org was supposed to have 2.88Mb floppies, but
the site is down, and freedo
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Albert Lee wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>
>> Hi ... I was recently trying to create a 2.88Mb floppy file to try and
>> BIOS
>> upgrade a Dell computer that wouldn't boot anything graphical.
>>
>> I know I'm probably going about th
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> Hi ... I was recently trying to create a 2.88Mb floppy file to try and BIOS
> upgrade a Dell computer that wouldn't boot anything graphical.
>
> I know I'm probably going about this wrong, but I cannot seem to use
> fdformat, or mkfs -F pcfs
Or create a YUMI Bootable USB stick with FreeDOS on it and dump your files
there.
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) <
openindi...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> > From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nsloo...@gmail.com]
> >
> > Hi ... I was recently trying to create a 2.88Mb fl
> From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nsloo...@gmail.com]
>
> Hi ... I was recently trying to create a 2.88Mb floppy file to try and BIOS
> upgrade a Dell computer that wouldn't boot anything graphical.
>
> I know I'm probably going about this wrong, but I cannot seem to use
> fdformat, or mkfs -F pc
Hi ... I was recently trying to create a 2.88Mb floppy file to try and BIOS
upgrade a Dell computer that wouldn't boot anything graphical.
I know I'm probably going about this wrong, but I cannot seem to use
fdformat, or mkfs -F pcfs on a file, in order to burn the file to a cdrom
...
jadams@jadl
