From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 9 5: 6:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1D037B401 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [216.138.209.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711D643E54 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 05:06:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgilbert@velocet.ca) Received: from canoe.velocet.net (canoe210.velocet.net [216.138.240.43]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C89FC138120; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 08:06:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by canoe.velocet.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id EFEDE567961; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 07:00:50 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15658.49762.897090.498677@canoe.velocet.net> Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 07:00:50 -0400 To: Robert Klein Cc: Kent Stewart , Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [hackers] Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. In-Reply-To: <200207082353.24230.RoKlein@roklein.de> References: <3D2A0835.9000608@owt.com> <200207082353.24230.RoKlein@roklein.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.04 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Klein writes: Robert> On Montag, 8. Juli 2002 23:46, Kent Stewart wrote: >> Julian Elischer wrote: > The machiine has 1 CD drive and no >> floppy.. Robert> ------------------------------------^^ >> All of the manufacturers have a program that will do that. Many of >> them even produce a bootable floppy. Check their support web page. Robert> which leaves the "no floppy" problem.. Perhaps you could use Robert> the bootable floppy from the manufacturer as the "el torito Robert> boot image" for a CD-R you create on another machine.. We use this method for all kinds of firmware tools. We normally have a CDR around with the current BIOS updates we're using, and any other firmware tools that we've recently used. It's difficult to create a 2.88 meg boot floppy (although not impossible), but if you're savvy, you can include the cdrom driver to give yourself much more room to create the ultimate DOS boot CD. Extra points allocated, of course, for the use of non-m$ products. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message