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On Friday 01 May 2009 11:37, Rob Beard wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade the bios on an old asus board and it seems to > > require an old dos boot disk! Anyone know how to make one in this day and > > age?? Tom te tom te tom > > This might help... > > http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos >-windows-no-floppy-drive.html > > It guides you through downloading a FreeDOS disk image which you can > mount as a loopback image and then if you haven't got a floppy drive you > can create a bootable CD image to burn to CD (I guess a CDRW would be > handy for this, seems a bit of a waste of a CD-R just for a single use). They're cheaper than floppies - I've just blown about£2.20 worth of floppies cos nothing seems to write safely to my floppy drives anymore ! Cant seem to write the boot sector properly - everything else works...... Will give this a spin! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html