Damon Register writes:
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 04:34, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
updated the MB bios from a DOS floppy. When will we be able to update modern MBs bios from within SUSE as easily as from Windows? I took the
Like, right now! man dosbootdisk It's installed by default. That doesn't work. I did not know of this so I was interested when I saw your post. I tried man dosbootdisk but get "no manual entry". I checked with YaST and it shows that dosbootdisk is installed. If
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: there is no man, how can I get more info on dosbootdisk? I have SuSE 9.1 pro.
$ which dosbootdisk /usr/bin/dosbootdisk $ file /usr/bin/dosbootdisk /usr/bin/dosbootdisk: Bourne shell script text So it's just a shell script. Examining the script shows that all you do is use the following syntax: dosbootdisk [device] Where device is an optional floppy device, such as /dev/fd1. If none is specified, it will use /dev/fd0h1440. The rest is all interactive. It will create a bootable FreeDOS floppy by decompressing /usr/share/dosbootdisk/floppy.gz and then writing the image to the floppy disk. -Ti