On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:39 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
On 5/6/2013 12:21 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
run it from hirens usb ? that can boot to a winPE style environment.
Never heard of it. Just looked at it... winPE - is that the miniXP?
And it bothers me that I've never heard of hirens - I*do* have to be aware of security. I'm still thinking of wine.
Hirens has been around for quite a while, and gets updated periodically. its a all-in-one CD or USB boot full of mostly open source tools, can boot into memtest86, a linux kernel/shell/gui environment, or into a 'bartPE' mini-XP environment. freedos too, I think.
<snip> Interesting. I need to look at them further.
HOWEVER: I saw something there about unpacking an .exe... and googled that, and found someone talking about doing that... which led me to cabextract, and, sure 'nough, I now have what was in that exe - flat files, CD, floppy! even a WinDoze floppy label printer!
Now all I have to do is figure out which will be easiest to use - I'm hoping I can just copy the flat files or the floppy files, or USB files, and reboot into freedos and go.
Hope this works out. :)
You could use a Windows 98 (or other Windows boot floppy) to boot and run the flashing utility. You can even boot up with your USB stick (has the utilities) plugged in ( it should become C: ).
I'm sure you could find a Windows floppy image online or one of us would be happy to send you a copy (it would be about the security/trust you can have in freedos images anyways).
Once you have the image it's trivial to turn a floppy image into a bootable ISO. But it sounds as if you have floppies and a floppy drive.
I think the freedos bits I saw in the HP bios updating archive for my system was for the "Crisis Recovery Disk".
mark
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