On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Remco Barendse <redhat at barendse.to> wrote: >> The box doesn't have a floppy drive or anything so it's no >> so easy to update from floppy. > > That's precisely why I keep a 250MB "dd" image with DR-DOS > 7.03 on it. I can plop it on any server. > > That's also why I _always_ leave several primary partitions > and a few GBs free at the beginning of the disk -- _always_. > I.e., my root (/) or /boot is _always_ /dev/sda3, and > everything else goes in /dev/sda4 (which may be LVM/LVM2). > > I can plop that 250MB "dd" image down as /dev/sda1 at a > moments notice, and reconfigure GRUB to chainload it. > >> My boot volume is on the 3Ware > > I know. I just boot DR-DOS 7.03 "clean". Even though the > "C:" it's on the 3Ware volume, the firmware update works. Thanks for the tips. I don't know if I'd want an extra partition on all my servers. An alternative idea, create a DOS boot disc with the firmware update, burn that as a bootable cdrom and perform the upgrade. I tried that last week but for some reason the cd didn't boot but that's probably more because I goofed up creating the cd :) And I don't care about the cost of a cd recordable compared to not upgrading the controller