On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > How do I make a DOS boot disk to flash my BIOS? Also, the flash files are > packed in a .exe file (a self extracting executable, I imagine). How do I > unpack that in Linux? > > I've always had a Windows machine handy, so this situation never arose till > now. Make a windows bootfloppy image. I always have a Windows 95 bootfloppy image available to start off with. You can make this image by doing: dd if=/dev/fd0 of=dos-floppy.img if you have a bootable floppy available. Then loop-mount that image, by doing: mount -o loop dos-floppy.img /media/floppy Now you can remove unnecessary files from /media/floppy and add your .exe files. If you have a Windows 95 or Windows 98 bootfloppy that creates a ramdisk, it may safe you some extra work when you have to unzip this self-executable archive. You don't actually need a floppy-drive or a floppy to boot this image. You can use memdisk to boot from this image directly. Just add a grub or lilo entry, and use memdisk as the kernel and your bootdisk image as the initrd. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
