December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
9h 18m
English
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FreeDOS
If you don’t have access to a Microsoft operating system to generate a bootable DOS disk and upgrade system hardware, you will find FreeDOS very useful. FreeDOS is a free (GPL) MS-DOS-compatible operating system. You can download a bootable disk image from the FreeDOS web site (http://www.freedos.org) and use it to upgrade system hardware with vendor-supplied utilities.
First, download a disk image from freedos.org. For each release, a subdirectory named instdisk contains bootable disk images for floppy drives of various sizes. For example, instdisk/1.44 contains bootable images for 1.44 MB floppy disks. Download the file FD8_144.DSK from the directory:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/beta8/Next, use dd to write the disk image onto a blank floppy disk:
# dd if=/home/derek/FDB8_144.DSK of=/dev/fd0H1440 bs=1kFormat another floppy disk and create an MS-DOS filesystem on it:
#fdformat /dev/fd0#mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0
Next, mount the newly formatted disk:
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppyCopy the firmware upgrades you downloaded from your vendor to the disk. Next, boot the system with the FreeDOS disk inserted. After the system starts, insert the disk with the firmware upgrades and run the vendor-provided utility to update your controllers and disks. You might need to create more than one blank disk in order to store all the firmware files and utilities. Some of them will fill an entire 1.44 MB floppy disk.
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