Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:35:08 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Howto: Prepare USB key with FreeDOS using FreeBSD Message-ID: <470FA23C.6070507@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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Hello. Well, I have a bunch of TYAN S2925B based boxes, all without floppy drives. For BIOS flash preparation I need an installation media and due to the fact I do not have a Windows XP box or FreeDOS box I need my laptop for creation of a bootable USB key media with the appropriate BIOS flash images and flashing tools. It seems to be a desaster. Every Wiki I visited looking for the subject referes to Gentoo/FreeDOS or highly complicated voodoo sessions installing first some files on floppy drive and the creating a bootable USB key ... blabla. Sorry, but I do not have FreeDOS running nor do I have Linux/Gentoo or Windows XP, I run FreeBSD on all of my machines. But in the age of legacy free computers, were floppy drives seems to be not essential anymore I run into massif problems having a legacy free server from TYAN without the ability taking any BIOS images from an USB key :-( The problem is I picked up some memory issues which have been solved with one of the newer BIOS images so I desperately need an update solution. Does anyone do have an idea? Thanks a lot in advance, Oliver
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