Loading a new bios

Eberhard Roloff tuxebi at gmx.de
Tue Aug 26 14:46:31 UTC 2008


Knapp schrieb:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Knapp schrieb:
>>> Hello, I read something here about making a bios CD instead of a
>>> floppy. I don't have a floppy drive on any of my computers but I do
>>> have a burner for cd or dvd on one. Can I make a bootable CD instead?
>>> How? I know it was posted or some comment on it but I did not need it
>>> at the time. Sorry about reasking.
>>>
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I do not know what was recommended then, but I would go for the
>> freedos boot CD. Btw. most former Bios Boot Diskettes are based on
>> free dos, as well.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Eberhard
> 
> And here is a link.
> 
> http://www.freedos.org/
> 
> Thanks!
> 
And here is another link, that illustrates one way to do it.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=318789
Maybe this is what you remembered from "wayback when" ;-))

Thanks!

Eberhard





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