I found myself needing to flash a BIOS today, which required a DOS or Windows 98 bootable floppy disk.\u00a0 Forget that.\u00a0 Let’s use a USB drive instead!<\/p>\n
Googling around returned methods that seemed way<\/em> too involved for what I was trying to do.\u00a0 Here’s the three commands I ended up using:<\/p>\n Be sure to change Then unplug the drive and plug it back in.\u00a0 Unzip your files onto the drive (mine shows up as You’ll end up with about 1.3 MB of free space on the drive, which should be enough for the majority of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I found myself needing to flash a BIOS today, which required a DOS or Windows 98 bootable floppy disk.\u00a0 Forget that.\u00a0 Let’s use a USB drive instead! Googling around returned methods that seemed way too involved for what I was trying to do.\u00a0 Here’s the three commands I ended up using: wget http:\/\/www.fdos.org\/bootdisks\/autogen\/FDOEM.144.gz gunzip FDOEM.144.gz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[54,51,53,23,52],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-bios","tag-boot-disk","tag-freedos","tag-linux","tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalcardboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}wget http:\/\/www.fdos.org\/bootdisks\/autogen\/FDOEM.144.gz
\ngunzip FDOEM.144.gz
\nsudo dd if=FDOEM.144 of=\/dev\/sdb<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\/dev\/sdb<\/code> to whatever your USB drive shows up as.<\/strong> (Disclaimer: I’m not responsible if you end up nuking your secondary hard drive)<\/em><\/p>\n\/media\/FREEDOS<\/code>), eject, and flash away!<\/p>\n