On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 3:39 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > > On 5/6/2013 12:21 PM, m.roth at 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //